The most common mistake you’ll make is to see engineering media as a mirror of what’s going on in our industry. Instead, it’s more akin to a bazaar.| nemil
To be an effective developer, regularly aim to pierce the abstraction wall, especially when you identify a soft interface.| nemil
The early days of the World Wide Web were a heady time for newspapers.| nemil
Despite how different it is from finance, DeFi will need to grapple with three of the same factors that led to the 2007 financial crisis that birthed crypto: yield chasing, musical chairs, and hype…| nemil
If you want your product to be widely used—or to work on projects that won’t be shut down at the first sign of trouble—remember that the user is king.| nemil
A few blockchain networks will eventually find a smart user acquisition strategy or game-changing technology (worldwide scalability) or a killer value proposition and start growing.| nemil
In Gotham City, Commissioner Gordon uses the bat-signal to summon Batman. The ICO, for all its mainstream criticism, was the bat-signal that attracted so many to crypto. It catalyzed coordination t…| nemil
I’ll make an only partially hyperbolic exhortation: software engineers should write less code.| nemil
The freedom of ignorance is a simple observation for entreprenurship: what we don’t know is sometimes as important as what we know.| nemil
Like a music fan naively asking “why can’t we all just love all forms of rock and roll,” those in crypto asking “why can’t we all just get along” miss the impossibility of t…| nemil