With the next AGP vote around the corner, I wrote an overview of the proposals that made it to the ballot — I wanted to do a quick summary, since decentralized governance is very new and may seem daunting. First of all, a first disclaimer: My intention is not to influence voting behavior. This post aims to be as neutral as possible. That is why it’s coming from my personal Medium account…

Save time to you and others by being brief and concise, while still communicating your point — When communicating, it is not only your time that matters — other people’s time matters too. Think of a 1-to-1 conversation. Someone that is reading an incomprehensible, bad formatted piece of content, will need more time to understand it. But also think of 1-to-many communication. It can be a blog…

Decentralized organizations just got real — We released Aragon 0.5 seven months ago. Since then, more than 2,500 organizations have been created with it. Counting all Aragon versions, the total number of Aragon organizations now adds up to 15,000+. That’s more than the number of businesses created yearly in Austria, Malta and Luxembourg combined. …

Reducing the noise so you can focus on what matters — It’s very easy to be pulled away from your main goals. There are two metrics that always requires optimization: time and impact. The less time you use, with the higher impact you achieve, the better. Increasing your leverage. Seems obvious, but it requires a lot of effort. You have to…

Regaining control of your life and time by saying no — Saying no is implicitly negative. But that doesn’t mean it’s negative for the world, your project, or your time. In a world full of distractions, we are always pushed to make positive choices. If we couldn’t say no, we would: Work in jobs we dislike End up in relationships we…

How to find bottlenecks and bugs by tracking your time — To fix something, you need to be aware of where the bug is. Time is our most scarce resource. Yet we lose a lot of it, or we invest it into tasks that are not the highest leverage. In today’s society, we make a lot of choices. We can opt…

Tips and tricks on how to increase work output while being healthy and happy — I started working on software ten years ago, and on crypto about seven. Out of that, a year and a half on Aragon. With Aragon growing, my responsibility has increased to levels I have never experienced. To add to that, I moved four times in the past two years. To…

How to fix soulless corporations from making everyone miserable — A lot of the world’s problems don’t come from malice. They come from sustained ineptitude over the course of decades. Ineptitude then manifests in many forms, and thus allowing incoherencies to flourish. Incoherencies can take many forms, including corruption and multiple kinds of contradictions. For example, take Facebook. Its goal…

Reducing the gap between language and code — Back in the day, when I was starting Unpatent with Jorge, we were thinking about how to teach machines to invent, so they could timestamp prior art before a patent troll could file a patent. We explored a lot of options, from graph databases to scraping the USPTO and running…