Reflections on 2024
My coach, Alla, asked me a few questions about this year. Here are my answers as a first approximation.
Balance
Specialization, the Dark Side of Modularity
An essay about the Modularity narrative and a counter-current thought: There would be great unlocks if beside Modularity we would also see more of an opposite pattern: Specialization.
Reverse Boiling Frog
The metaphor of the "boiling frog" becomes even more interesting if we reverse it.
From a Strawman to a Steelman
I would love to see a web3 critic take this technology seriously: learn what it is about, steelman it, then knock it down fairly. Now that would be a formidable opponent!
Burning out
What’s the opposite of burning out?
If burning out means exhausting myself with work, then I would understand the
opposite to mean hopping joyously between two states: (a) being challenged
beyond my