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Identity as Information — The Looking Glass

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So said Erik Erikson, the psychologist who coined the term “identity crisis.” It often feels true: identity is a nebulous concept, with many connotations and its meaning highly context-dependent. This is no different in Web3.

The more one writes about identity, the more the word becomes a term for something that is as unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. So said Erik Erikson, the psychologist who coined the term "identity crisis.” It often feels true: identity is a nebulous concept, with many connotations and its meaning highly context-dependent. This is no different in Web3. In this post I’ll try to alleviate this: a framework for thinking about identity on the web as primarily a tool to store, manage and retrieve information. It won’t clear up every use and misuse of the term, but I hope it lends clarity in think

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