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Where are you in your company's layoff list?
Where are you in your company's layoff list? Every company has one, even if it's just a vague idea in the mind of the CEO. By looking a...
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$1M VotePlz Sweepstakes
The 2016 US Presidential election feels like the most important one so far in my lifetime. No one able to vote in the US should be sitting this one out—we have a major choice to make. With some...
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Facebook is ruining Instagram
I always loved Instagram. It's been my favorite social network since I had a smartphone. I was happy when it was purchased from Facebook…
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macOS Sierra Leaks Image of MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar
Welp, it is real. These images are straight out of System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PassKitUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources on my Mac running 10.12.1: There’s a lot to parse here. Clearly, the rumors of a Magic Toolbar are all correct, as well the inclusion of Touch ID to the right of the Toolbar. It looks like…
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The sad graph of software death
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A Simple Explanation of How Shares Move Around the Securities Settlement System
I explained here how money moves around the banking system and how the Bitcoin system causes us to revisit our assumptions about what a payment system must look like. In this post, I turn my attent…
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Inequality and Skin in the Game
(Chapter from Skin in the Game)
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Who really gets hurt when startups blow up, and what to do about it
Yesterday, Theranos announced that it would void two years of diagnostic test results from its Edison blood-testing device. Pulitzer…
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On the Exponential View
The following is the text of a talk I gave in San Francisco on December 1st, 2016.
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How to Leverage Technical Debt
“There ain’t no good debt, only different types. A cunning hacker is one who leverages some debt, in some circumstances, to create good…
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After Mac?
So, there are new MacBooks and many people are unhappy . Tl;dr: Apple thinks thin-and-light is more important than well-equipped-and-powerful.
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Google recruitment mistakes: part 3
It has been a while that I have been contacted by a recruiter, and the last few ones were fairly decent conversations, where they made an effort to research me first, and even if they did not get everything right, they still listened, and we had a productive talk. But four days ago, I had another recruiter reach out…
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Exploding offers are bullshit
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers.
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How I rolled my own explainer video for my Saas in a weekend
Being totally boot strapped, and non funded, I have to market my web app HR Partner, on the smell of an oily rag, plus do all the marketing…
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Moving Past the Scaling Myth
Moving Past the Scaling Myth - Discontinuous Transition in Process and Architecture
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Redefining Work
The most modern definition of work is “an exchange in which the participants benefit from the interaction”. Interestingly, cooperation is…
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OpenTimestamps: Scalable, Trust-Minimized, Distributed Timestamping with Bitcoin
I’ve spent the past few weeks working on1 an old2 project of mine,OpenTimestamps, and it’s ready for a public alpha release. It’s timestampinginfrastructure ...