Crypto payment should be identical to how we do things in Asia: Method 1: Merchant shows a QR code which has the payment amount and destination embedded it in. I scan, biometric authentication, done. Also works when buying things online. Method 2: I create a QR code (requires

People outside of software development have a hard time grasping the existence of the 10x engineer. There is also the 10x writer — but the ceiling of the talent scale in writing is far greater than 10 — it’s fair to say that some (albeit very few) writers can write 1000x better

It’s not just you, it’s very hard to get a job as a junior engineer in 2025. If today I was a junior engineer (sub 2 years experience), here’s what I would do: 1. Reset expectations There is so much propaganda from 2021/22 that says “if you teach yourself how to code for six

Almost every week for the past two years I’ve had one-on-one video calls with devs who are trying to upskill in Solidity / smart contract development. From my experience, here are the top reasons devs, even professional ones, struggle to understand DeFi codebases. #1 They are

In an earlier tweet, I recommended working on the hardest problem you can to gain respect, and then use that respect to get out of the “junior engineer” stage. But this doesn’t apply only to juniors. In my own work life: 1 - I became the youngest engineering manager at Yahoo

imo Jeff's biggest contribution was that he nailed ZK education with the perfect opening sequence: Sets, Groups, Fields, Homomorphisms, Pairings. this bit cannot be understated; absolute game changer. I say this as someone with a pure math grad with 2 quantitative masters. this

It’s amazing to me how busted education is, even in college. 1) You sit in a lecture where the teacher yaps the same thing for the dozenth time. He or she probably doesn’t have the advantage of special effects or animations to convey concepts more clearly (i.e. visual modality

Something I’ve been actively thinking about is “How do you teach someone how to write?” I’m bulling on using AI to learn how to code, but if AI is your writing instructor, it can only help you if your writing is really bad. Some thoughts in no particular order: 1) Direct

Let me remind you for the 56th time that being a “monkey see, monkey do” coder will not get you places. You should actually learn the foundations of computer science. Most true innovation in computer science stopped decades ago. The “innovation” we see nowadays is simply

I’m having the legendary Jeffrey Scholz on THE NETWORK PODCAST this Friday. What should I ask him? Respond with a comment below this post!

This never fails to put a smile on my face.

There should be at least one subject that you understand very deeply. People who don’t get to this point don’t learn what “deep understanding” looks like. They think that “understanding” a subject means having consumed the most popular content on the topic. Once you understand

I’m looking for a dev with the following: - Must be able to do UI / UX design if given a brand guideline and preexisting copy - Must be comfortable with php - Must be based in Asia - Must have used with Selenium / Playwright for website testing (or for sniping concert

It’s not rare for people to succeed despite being: - arrogant - volatile - low eq - not particularly intelligent - disorganized - unhealthy lifestyle - health issues (ones you can’t do anything about) But it’s extremely rare to succeed with the following attributes: - lazy -