Mark Johnson·Nov 27, 2023What’s broken in commercializing science?“Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living…A response icon5A response icon5
Mark Johnson·Sep 14, 2022Experiments with grant-making in web3Stand Together is launching two experiments in using web3 to create a framework for bottom-up grant-making.
Mark Johnson·Aug 4, 2022Meditations: A Requiem for Descartes LabsThoughts from the founding CEO of Descartes Labs after its exit in 2022.A response icon18A response icon18
Mark Johnson·Feb 23, 2022Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life.Musings on Hofstadter’s phenomenal book about computation, consciousness, and epistemology.A response icon85A response icon85
Mark Johnson·Feb 10, 2022Moving from .com to .orgThis week, I joined Stand Together, a philanthropic community, as their inaugural CTO.A response icon4A response icon4
Mark Johnson·Nov 19, 2021Bayer+Microsoft: A digital platform for agriculture?Plus thoughts on FBN and Growmark+CHS
Mark Johnson·Oct 12, 2021The Day the Grain Marketplace DiedGrain marketplaces were supposed to disrupt the grain industry, but have failed for two decades. Maybe it’s time to rethink the strategy.A response icon2A response icon2
Mark Johnson·Jul 20, 2021Lessons from building an agricultural data refineryGrainBridge released our first data feature last quarter on top of a data refinery. Here are some lessons we learned.A response icon1A response icon1
Mark Johnson·May 9, 2021How GrainBridge became a product development machineReflection after 1 year at the helm of GrainBridge about how the company was able to ship product.A response icon1A response icon1
Mark Johnson·Apr 8, 2021Researching Carbon in Agriculture :: Sequestration & MarketplacesCarbon sequestration is a hot topic in agriculture. This post presents a thesis on why and what research needs to be done.A response icon1A response icon1
