Originally published at https://www.soroushjp.com on Sep 16, 2019. I recently helped a friend with some career advice. Despite performing very well in their first year on the job, they were already bored there. They wanted to know whether they should take on a new role or leave the company altogether…

Originally published at https://www.soroushjp.com on May 1, 2019. About 6 months ago, I left my role as an engineering manager at Plaid to pursue new endeavours.[1] …

Originally published at www.soroushjp.com on March 30, 2019. For the last 6 months, I’ve been independently researching full-time the modern food system and its effects on our world. One big, obvious effect of food is on human health. As a keen student, but otherwise unconnected to and unbiased by any…

Originally published at www.soroushjp.com on February 7, 2015. I was recently playing around with a problem presented to me — using Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the value of π (pi). For anyone not familiar with the Monte Carlo method, it is essentially a probabilistic way to come up with…

Originally published at www.soroushjp.com on January 27, 2015. I recently read David Huie’s great post about Go being possibly the next great teaching language, and I wasn’t so sure at first. I absolutely love Go and use it as my first choice imperative language for both hacking something together quickly…

Originally published at www.soroushjp.com on December 20, 2014. Recently, inspired by Ken Shirriff’s and Bryce Neal’s low level looks at the Bitcoin protocol, I set about constructing Bitcoin’s much talked about multisignature transactions from scratch to understand their capabilities and limitations. Specifically, I used Bitcoin’s Pay-to-ScriptHash (P2SH) transaction type to…

Originally published at www.soroushjp.com on December 9, 2014 OpenBazaar is an open-source effort to create a distributed, decentralized marketplace that will let people buy and sell things online without any single point of failure or centralized control. It’s a fantastic idea and is currently in beta. I wanted to write…

Originally published at www.soroushjp.com on November 21, 2014. I’ve been working heavily with raw level Bitcoin transactions lately, mainly so I can understand what’s going at the protocol level where a lot of the fun innovation is happening. …