When the machine asks who you are, what do you answer?
Six years and several tokenization projects later — BRZ stablecoin, Alkimiya hashrate derivatives, Preservaland forest NFTs, EURQ on LayerZero, CS Digital — the lessons that don’t make it onto conference panels. The hardest part is never the smart contract.
The word ‘company’ hides a meal. On how capitalism was never natural, Varoufakis on technofeudalism, the empty-office syndrome in the age of AI, and the question that defines the next decade: who do we break bread with once the machine has changed work?
Most people believe they are morally superior to the average. An essay threading cognitive psychology (Tappin & McKay), Nietzsche (Genealogy of Morals), and Haidt (the rider and the elephant), on the judge we all carry inside — and how to let it rest.
On how architecture was always embedded in the act of programming — until teams grew large enough that Conway’s Law started outranking Liskov’s. Why software rots if it doesn’t change, why Definition of Ready is architecture disguised as process, and why in the age of AI intention matters more than code.
I wasn’t looking for Bitcoin. It found me in the middle of an engineering problem. How a distributed file synchronizer in 2010, a search for a hash faster than MD4, and a letter in Japanese from Mt. Gox turned into a fifteen-year journey.
On why measuring our worth by what we produce is the most cursed belief of our time, and why being replaced by a machine could be the beginning of liberation — not the end. With Graeber, Han, Benjamin, Weber, and Illich.
I found a body of research on the gut-brain and heart-brain connection, read through the abstracts, and my curiosity caught fire. A reading list of 172 papers, framed by a conviction: we are made in the image of God, and machines are meant to serve us — not the other way around.
On what it’s like to manage developers and then find yourself managing the AI the same way — polite but clear — and on the unexpectedly human question it asks after the bug finally dies.
Why the block subsidy can’t carry Bitcoin’s security forever — and why fees can’t replace it if people aren’t actually using the network. A walk through Sztorc’s argument with updated numbers.
Technofeudalism, the open-source rebellion, the weird saga of Twitter, and why your next AI should probably live on your own machine.