jeffemmett-website-redesign/components/about-section.tsx

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export function AboutSection() {
return (
<section className="py-32 px-6 bg-card/30">
<div className="max-w-4xl mx-auto">
<div className="mb-16">
<h2 className="text-5xl md:text-6xl font-bold mb-6">About Me</h2>
</div>
<div className="space-y-6 text-lg leading-relaxed">
<p className="text-foreground/90">
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">
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 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">
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>
</div>
</div>
</section>
)
}