A historical collection of our writing.
Today Algorand and Blockstack are announcing that they are collaborating on the Clarity smart contract language . Clarity is a decidable (i.e. non-Turing complete) language inspired by lisp. I am extremely excited about this development and have spent a few hours this week writing a smart contract […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” goes an adage that is often recited as if it were some kind of profound truth (misattributed to Deming ). And of course there is some logic here. Let’s say you own a website and you want to grow it. Measuring traffic to the site will […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I watched a livestream organized by BLCK VC yesterday. It was incredibly powerful and should be widely seen. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Watching what is happening in the United States, my adopted home country, is incredibly painful. I have seen the last few days coming for years based on the ever more untenable income and wealth distribution combined with militarization of the police and their ongoing unchecked brutality, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
“Two out of three ain’t bad” is the title of a Meat Loaf song but is also the idea behind triangles : situations in which you can achieve only two of three objectives. The classic example is the idea that in manufacturing you can have any two, but not all three from fast, cheap, good. (*) […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been getting a large number of requests for help with internships. Many students either never got one for this summer or had theirs canceled. My advice to them is: create your own. Figure out what it is you want to learn, start learning it, write about it online and find others to join […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
