Highlighted by Nicholas McClish
From Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them by Steve Blank
In this case the entrepreneurs know something potential employers don’t — that nowhere on their resume does it show resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products.
From Why Blockchain is Hard by Jimmy Song
The main thing distinguishing a blockchain from a normal database is that there are specific rules about how to put data into the database. That is, it cannot conflict with some other data that’s already in the database (consistent), it’s append-only (immutable), and the data itself is locked to an owner (ownable), it’s replicable and available. Finally, everyone agrees on what the state of the things in the database are (canonical) without a central party (decentralized).