Below is a presentation I gave a few years ago to a coder academy class about working in bad teams as a junior developer. Whilst this is targeted at software development the lessons here are universal. TLDR: Bad teams happen for all different reasons and none of them are your fault. If you're in one get out. Life is too short and too full of other opportunities.

Below is a presentation I gave a few years ago to a coder academy class about working in bad teams as a junior developer. Whilst this is targeted at software development the lessons here are universal. TLDR: Bad teams happen for all different reasons and none of them are your fault. If you're in one get out. Life is too short and too full of other opportunities.

Write To Earn: Publishing in web3Mirror is a web3 publishing platform. It's part of the broader Write To Earn web3 publishing dapps. It sits on the Optimism blockchain, which is an Ethereum Layer 2 chain. Mirror is not a full ecosystem in the same way as other web3 publishing platforms are. Some examples are: Hive social dapps, BULB, Solcial. These platforms have established economic systems which they hope are able to accurately have value reside, and be controlled by, the user.The Mirr...

Write To Earn: Publishing in web3Mirror is a web3 publishing platform. It's part of the broader Write To Earn web3 publishing dapps. It sits on the Optimism blockchain, which is an Ethereum Layer 2 chain. Mirror is not a full ecosystem in the same way as other web3 publishing platforms are. Some examples are: Hive social dapps, BULB, Solcial. These platforms have established economic systems which they hope are able to accurately have value reside, and be controlled by, the user.The Mirr...

Badger DAO are doing a synthetic $BTC. It's not your Bitcoin, it's a #liquidstaked $ETH backed token, called $eBTC, which tracks the value of Bitcoin. Linked below are the two updates in the Badger forums about it so far. Announcement: https://forum.badger.finance/t/introducing-ebtc-a-decentralized-bitcoin-powered-by-ethereum-staking/5952/9 First update: https://forum.badger.finance/t/ebtc-builder-update-1/5975 The thesis, as I read it, is:current #EVM chain compatible bitcoin produ...

Badger DAO are doing a synthetic $BTC. It's not your Bitcoin, it's a #liquidstaked $ETH backed token, called $eBTC, which tracks the value of Bitcoin. Linked below are the two updates in the Badger forums about it so far. Announcement: https://forum.badger.finance/t/introducing-ebtc-a-decentralized-bitcoin-powered-by-ethereum-staking/5952/9 First update: https://forum.badger.finance/t/ebtc-builder-update-1/5975 The thesis, as I read it, is:current #EVM chain compatible bitcoin produ...

Defi is a really really interesting space. It's currently mostly financial but it's not just financial. But defi is also very new and we've not seen a lot of standardisation yet so it can be quite overwhelming for new comers. Never fear, there's heap of resources to help you get started and you'll see, despite the outward appearance, defi actually pretty simple when you get down to the core concepts.Where oh where to start?I cannot recommend defi information aggregato...

Defi is a really really interesting space. It's currently mostly financial but it's not just financial. But defi is also very new and we've not seen a lot of standardisation yet so it can be quite overwhelming for new comers. Never fear, there's heap of resources to help you get started and you'll see, despite the outward appearance, defi actually pretty simple when you get down to the core concepts.Where oh where to start?I cannot recommend defi information aggregato...

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.― George Bernard Shaw It wasn’t until the infrastructure of the internet became significantly more #decentralised and accessible that we started to fully grapple with #freespeech on the #internet. Whilst I...

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.― George Bernard Shaw It wasn’t until the infrastructure of the internet became significantly more #decentralised and accessible that we started to fully grapple with #freespeech on the #internet. Whilst I...