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From: Jeff Emmett <jeffemmett@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:17:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Rewrite about section, add greeting to hero
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- Rewrote about section with more authentic voice
- Less academic jargon, more heart
- Added "Hi, I'm" above name in hero
- Removed stats/metrics section

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 components/about-section.tsx | 51 +++++++++---------------------------
 components/hero-section.tsx  |  1 +
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/components/about-section.tsx b/components/about-section.tsx
index 88c6131..4eb47fc 100644
--- a/components/about-section.tsx
+++ b/components/about-section.tsx
@@ -8,54 +8,29 @@ export function AboutSection() {
 
         <div className="space-y-6 text-lg leading-relaxed">
           <p className="text-foreground/90">
-            I'm a token engineering researcher and systems designer exploring the intersection of economics, ecology,
-            and decentralized coordination. My work focuses on creating tools and frameworks that enable communities to
-            manage shared resources sustainably and equitably—what I call "decent/ralised" systems.
+            Our economic and governance systems are failing us. They extract rather than regenerate,
+            concentrate rather than distribute, and optimize for short-term gains over long-term flourishing.
+            I'm working to change that.
           </p>
 
           <p className="text-muted-foreground">
-            As a co-founder of the Commons Stack, I've been instrumental in developing cyber-physical commons
-            architectures that translate Elinor Ostrom's principles into DAO templates. We're building customizable
-            libraries of tools for communal management of public goods, including innovations like Augmented Bonding
-            Curves and Conviction Voting—a novel continuous decision-making mechanism that addresses critical attack
-            vectors in traditional governance systems.
+            With the Commons Stack, we're building tools that let communities actually govern their shared
+            resources—not through top-down control or market fundamentalism, but through thoughtful design
+            that learns from both Elinor Ostrom's commons research and the possibilities of programmable money.
           </p>
 
           <p className="text-muted-foreground">
-            Through the Bonding Curve Research Group, I research and develop Primary Issuance Markets that enable
-            dynamic token supply mechanisms. This work challenges the fixed supply paradigm dominant in Web3, offering
-            adaptive approaches that dampen volatility and generate sustainable revenue for token ecosystems. Our
-            research shows that tokens using primary issuance markets significantly outperform fixed-supply tokens in
-            price stability and risk-adjusted returns.
+            Through MycoFi, I'm exploring what economics might look like if we took seriously the lessons
+            from fungal networks—systems that have been solving resource allocation problems for hundreds
+            of millions of years. Cooperation over competition. Regeneration over extraction.
+            The wisdom of the mycelium.
           </p>
 
           <p className="text-muted-foreground">
-            My MycoFi research explores mycoeconomics—economic systems inspired by fungal networks. By emulating
-            nature's evolutionary resource allocation algorithms through mycelial intelligence, we can design
-            regenerative protocols built on cooperation, mutual aid, and permaculture currency principles rather than
-            extractive growth models. I authored book.mycofi.earth to share these insights.
+            This isn't just theory. We've built and deployed conviction voting, bonding curves, and other
+            mechanisms that real communities use every day. The work is messy and ongoing, but it matters—
+            because the alternatives we build today shape the possibilities of tomorrow.
           </p>
-
-          <p className="text-muted-foreground">
-            I believe our token economies need the same rigorous engineering as physical infrastructure. Just as the
-            Golden Gate Bridge required mathematical validation and simulation, so too do our economic systems need
-            robust modeling to serve as reliable public infrastructure.
-          </p>
-        </div>
-
-        <div className="mt-16 grid md:grid-cols-3 gap-8">
-          <div>
-            <h3 className="text-3xl font-bold text-primary mb-2">8+</h3>
-            <p className="text-muted-foreground">Years in Token Engineering</p>
-          </div>
-          <div>
-            <h3 className="text-3xl font-bold text-primary mb-2">50+</h3>
-            <p className="text-muted-foreground">Research Publications</p>
-          </div>
-          <div>
-            <h3 className="text-3xl font-bold text-primary mb-2">∞</h3>
-            <p className="text-muted-foreground">Regenerative Impact</p>
-          </div>
         </div>
       </div>
     </section>
diff --git a/components/hero-section.tsx b/components/hero-section.tsx
index 9263b9b..a1be013 100644
--- a/components/hero-section.tsx
+++ b/components/hero-section.tsx
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ export function HeroSection() {
           </span>
         </div>
 
+        <p className="text-xl md:text-2xl text-muted-foreground mb-2">Hi, I'm</p>
         <h1 className="text-6xl md:text-8xl font-bold mb-6 text-balance leading-tight">Jeff Emmett</h1>
 
         <p className="text-xl md:text-2xl text-muted-foreground mb-12 max-w-3xl mx-auto text-balance leading-relaxed">