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It is practical. When mobile wallets was taking off a lot of people starting pitching "blockchain technogloy" in fintech and said decentralization needs to be the foundation for ev…

Is the guy from CoreJS still looking for a job?

The issue is that I did not discover the problem until it was already too late. Then I asked myself is DNS level filtering even useful for me? A traditional browser based adblocker…

Privacy tooling often is devoid of common human nature which is get shit done without making a religion out of it. Good tools are not configurable or dynamic, they just serve a pur…

I just uninstalled Pi-hole. It kind of ruined a little bit of my life. I had a very time-sensitive and bureaucratic thing to do. It involved making an appointment. I've been trying…

I did some interviewing rounds with PaaS platforms for advisory roles. I loved Heroku and was ruined by Heroku so I thought maybe the industry has something new to offer. The model…

If you can afford it hire a virtual assistant and have them filter things for you and curate stuff. If you are suffering through things to find glimpses of enjoyment it is best you…

In my advisory job founders always raise the question about open sourcing within the first hour of meeting me. They think that open sourcing product means transparency and develope…

I do not think that is the issue. The recent acquisitions from all these big tech companies did not have any "meaningful" user base to begin with. I think your name alone carries s…

Well, Cloudflare does not launch anything. They acquire to build products. Look into all their recent product launches. They acquired a relatively small company and converted the f…

I am not sure that is possible because I act as a buffer between him and my parents. My other siblings drew a line, and they are miserable themselves because they can't help. He is…

No, I am not. That is the thing—it has been 7 years, and we are stuck in the same loop. If I were to give your friend advice, it is to send a lot of warm emails. Joining a freelanc…

He has a physical disability, and he had major trauma that he is dealing with, but that was more than a decade ago. He went to therapy a few times but a couple of therapist essenti…

My hobby involves trying to help my brother get a job. He has a disability and can only work remotely at low-skill jobs. So, I have spent years applying, starting, and doing work i…

I do not understand what bubble even means, and I do not think the developer influencers do either. Was NFT or Crypto a bubble? The idea of a bubble means that it "pops" in a drama…

It would be impossible to buy a company as a steward. We worked with them. In the early 2020s, their teams were as lazy as IBM boomers. Happy to hop on a call, but let's do an rain…

The strategy is simple. - Buy a product that has name recognition overshadowed by a monopolistic company and the leadership is trying to make a pivot and failing terribly. - Leader…

I do advisory for pre-Series A startups as a last ditch effort to save them. I do not get the unified industry delusion about "why X company has a bad product". It is usually eithe…