atareh

artist · educator · creator

i design things a little before the world asks for them, then teach what i learned.

backgrounda molecular scientist ↗, head of product at a health SaaS.

nowwriting and experimenting in cryptography and AI.

experiments

1. 2017
   gogray.today ↗

   a movement + app to turn phone screens gray, to combat phone addiction and reclaim focus. launched over a year before Apple (iOS 12, Sept 2018) and Google (Android Digital Wellbeing, Aug 2018) shipped built-in screen-time tracking.

   
2. 2022
   NFT locking ↗

   a wallet-level lock that automatically rejects new approval transactions for locked NFTs, designed after a run of approval-phishing thefts. now implemented by Backpack (collection locking) and WalletGuard (soft locking).

3. 2023
   THE DAM SHOW ↗

   produced + hosted the CryptoPunks livestream ↗ at Beeple Studios and ApeFest 2023 ↗ in Hong Kong (behind the scenes ↗).

   
4. 2025
   WITA ↗

   who is the a-hole: upload an argument and an AI returns a verdict. the basic idea: what happens when AI becomes the judge, the adjudicator?

   
5. 2025
   provably fair token launches ↗

   a design for deploying many contract addresses and picking the live one at random, so insiders can't get it early. the YZY token later launched with 25 contract addresses.

6. 2025
   Fey

   co-founded a token launchpad with no volume fee: the team bought its own token, so it only won if the ecosystem did. self-funded, and sunsetted jan 2026.
7. 2026
   AI Sensei 3000 ↗

   a desktop AI companion for Mac. a character sees your screen, answers out loud and points at the UI.

   
8. 2026
   The Library of Pump ↗

   originally conceived in 2024: the realization that tokenizing events is writing a permanent history of world events and crypto twitter to the Solana blockchain.

   

teach

38 step-by-step guides on Claude Code, design systems and AI workflows, plus a newsletter of Claude Code skills (35 issues so far).

1. SEP 23
   Meta's Muse can tell you who unfollowed you on Instagram
2. AUG 12
   The built-in WebSearch is holding your agent back — switch to Exa
3. AUG 12
   Let Claude Code watch videos — and audit your competitors' topics and hooks

all 38 guides →·3 claude code skills — newsletter →

written works

1. 2026
   the library ↗

   tokens as a permanent record of events on Solana, against a web that can be edited or deleted.

2. 2026
   if everything on the internet is fake, IRL is the final frontier ↗

   assume everything online is fake. the test that's left is whether you can do it in person.

3. 2026
   2 megapixels is enough ↗

   a 48MP camera is a microscope. at 2MP there's room for the brain to soften what it sees.

4. 2026
   your past echoes into your future — why patterns repeat in your life ↗
5. 2025
   the physiognomy of shows: what your streaming set-up says ↗

   the set, lighting and framing of a stream decide what the audience believes before anyone speaks.

6. 2025
   money buys you time, but it's deeper than that ↗
7. 2024
   all prophecies come true ↗
8. 2024
   why "internet brain" robs you of real life connections ↗
9. 2024
   the design of your life ↗

published research

1. 2025
   Cargo-selective regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis by AMP-activated protein kinase ↗

   iScience

2. 2017
   Integrins and cell metabolism: an intimate relationship impacting cancer ↗

   International Journal of Molecular Sciences

3. 2015
   AMP-activated protein kinase regulates the cell surface proteome and integrin membrane traffic ↗

   PLoS ONE

all on google scholar ↗

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