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Wrote code and deployed software infrastructure to support sustainable materials science at Genomatica.
Worked a contract building crypto analytics tools at DeFi Pulse.
Developed golang ETL systems at Walt Disney Studios.
Worked on end-to-end encrypted DevOps tooling (secret storage) as employee #1 at EnvKey (YC 2018).
Founding CTO/coder for 2 years at AQUAOSO (techstars 2019), building a water resilient future, open source GIS/Mapping.
Mostly golang, javascript/typescript, and python. Open source contributor where possible.
Mailsac.com founder.
Formerly: Genomatica R&D, DeFi Pulse, Disney/Marvel, envkey (YC), AQUAOSO, (techstars), Digium R&D, Clevertech, VSP Vision, freelance.
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The advice has strategic advantage in limited situations.
Hiding your decision making from others robs you of the opportunity to learn from others. If your decision is on such weak footing it can’t hold up the the scrutiny of friends and family then perhaps it should be questioned.
If the person doing the questioning is not tending toward appreciative understanding, then avoiding discussion makes sense.
A mix of centralized and decentralized seems the safest.
Business is hard and important. Marketing, sales and strategy are necessary, there’s no “build it and they will come.”
Working at small early successful startup has been huge for learning.
Learning from local startups and building relationships with other entrepreneurs is huge.
Startup accelerators and hackathons help tech people learn business savvy and connect with non-tech cofounders.
For the vast majority, software dev is an arcane art and dev chops can be highly appreciated by a businessey entrepreneur.
The notification from AWS referenced an instance we don’t have.
Some clarification from AWS would be nice. It made me wonder if it was related to an ELB or something.
Work for the sake of survival is what most people are consumed with.
Now you’re free.
What meaning will you give to your life? How will you share your special, unique talents? Who will you help?
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It requires an tray app called Karabiner Elements to link the function keys across keyboards.
My conjecture is that Tether's collapse will result in temporary losses to crypto values overall. It will likely lead to regulation. But with regulation the legitimacy of DeFi in particular will be more solidified and raise the markets. This is my guess for the next 5 years or so.
After years of shoulder, neck and back pain I discovered that the root cause was the standard keyboard design. It causes rounded shoulders. Perhaps my shoulders are just too wide. This pinched all sorts of muscles, tendons and nerves. Doctors and physical therapists just failed to identify the issue. Weight lifting didn't help all that much, even with a strong back I had to scrunch and round the shoulders to type.
I finally picked up a second keyboard, and used one for each hand. It was surprisingly easy to convert to. Just added some larger rubber nub things on home row.
It's been life changing. Years of pain was gone in days. No special design necessary.
Each keyboard is arranged at an outward angle, distanced so my shoulders are in a natural position.
I can't recommend this enough.
On Mac it required a system preference tweak (Karibiner app) so each keyboard can share shortcut keys.