Contact

✉️ Email me at salim -at- salimvirani.com.

🗓️ Meet
To schedule a call, you can book me for weekly Office Hours.

💬 Call
If it’s quick and Kernel-related, grab me tomorrow for 15 minutes, or just call me on Telegram.

I live in Sofia, Bulgaria which is in Eastern European Time (UTC+2). I’m usually free to talk in the afternoon.

What am I up to these days?

I’m on the Kernel Stewards team, where we help ~2,000 fellows understand the what the development of blockchains mean to humanity on anthropological scales. I’m particularly interested in enabling fellows to build things with blockchains that are altruistic and prudent.

I’m also building a communication tool for community groups and unconferences. It focuses on autonomising teams rather than “coordinating”.

In the past, I've designed peer-learning programs for Oxford, UCL, Techstars, Microsoft Ventures and The Royal Academy Of Engineering, careering from startups to humanitech and engineering. I also played a role in the Lean Startup methodology, and the European startup ecosystem. You can read about this here.

Books & collected practices

  • Peer Learning Is - a broad look at peer learning around the world, and how to design peer learning to outperform traditional education
  • Mentor Impact - researched the practices used by the startup mentors that really make a difference
  • DAOistry - practices and mindsets that work in blockchain communities
  • Decision Hacks - early-stage startup decisions distilled
  • Source Institute - skunkworks I founded with open peer learning formats and ops guides, and our internal guide on decentralised teams

Random Projects

  • Cuppa - decentralised collaboration protocol (WIP)
  • Nonfungo - completely on-chain NFT sale notification bot for Discord. (Look ma! No Opensea API!)
  • Powerplays - real-time token launches