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Since the beginning, Y Combinator’s motto has been “make something people want.”

This post is part of my periodic Dispatches from Crypto series and was originally published on Bankless in June 2020.

This post was originally published on Bankless in May 2020.

“The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user.” – Ryan Dahl (Node.js) This post is part of my sporadic Notes to a Young Software Engineer series.

This post is part of my periodic Dispatches from Crypto series.

How hype, speculation, and Dentacoin build the cryptocurrency networks of tomorrow Source: Flickr, CC BY 2.0 License.

“[E]verybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus This post is part of my sporadic Notes to a Young Software Engineer series.

What you don’t know is often as important as what you do “He did not know he could not fly and so he did.” – Guy Clark In early 1991, a twenty-one year old student at the University of Helsinki began working on a new programming project.

Reflections on tribalism and discord in early crypto “I can guarantee you one thing: [rock and roll fans] will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

This post is part of my sporadic Notes to a Young Software Engineer series.