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Here's a model I use to think about how AI will change work. Some parts of every activity will cost 1,000x

There seem to be two views of what will happen with engineers' jobs given the new efficiencies from using advanced AI coding tools

How I spent a year trying to start a startup -- and failed.

Shorter ideas, quick updates, and experiments in progress.

This is a talk I gave in Lisbon in October 2022, at IPFS camp. What makes it somewhat special: I generated all the illustrations for this deck using

30 Oct 2022 · 1 min read

This is a short NFTPort workshop I recorded for the ETHGlobal NY hackathon. I was actually in New York around that time but sadly had to fly out

2 Jul 2022 · 1 min read

This is a short workshop I gave at the Road to Web3 online hackathon: a brief demo of NFTPort [https://nftport.xyz/]'s APIs to people who

5 Feb 2022 · 1 min read

This is a hidden gem: Estonia's pitch as a startup country, almost 30 years ago. As far as I know, it hasn't been on

1 Jul 2021 · 1 min read

I'm both a millennial and a startup founder and both of these groups are often considered flaky perhaps, unable to commit. They seem like they'

7 Jun 2021 · 5 min read

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devclub.lv meetup 07.11.2019ML at Veriff: What is possible in a year?Google Docs

7 Nov 2019 · 1 min read

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