The beginning of a new year is always a time to think about the future. Also, everyone wants to become a better professional in the upcoming year. For those…
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Coinbase Innovator’s Dilemma: From Exchange to Broker
…many of the companies we think of as cryptocurrency exchanges were actually brokerages, exchanges, custodians, and clearing houses bundled into one….I think we’ll see the cryptocurrency market structure evolve…
Largest US Companies Outperformed By Bitcoin Baby’s College Fund
If you had to invest money for your child’s future education you would think that buying stocks in giant tech firms like Tesla and Google would be a good…
What is nep.work and Why Did We Built It?
Think of us as an ecommerce platform for trading service agreements and insurances (eg for event organization and logistics) instead of products and as a hospitality platform operational at…
Your Complete Guide to Meaningful User Research—Without Interviews
First, we need to talk about user research conducted with interviews. When we think about user research we immediately picture a customer development interview. Nonetheless, like any other type of research,…
Interservice Communication in Microservices: 3 Common Misunderstandings
Think back to the last time you worked in a distributed system, did you consider using something other than RESTful HTTP calls as the method of communication between components in this system?…
The 5 Most Common Design Patterns in PHP Applications
If you think that the number one pattern is Singleton then you are fired! The Singleton pattern is already deprecated, and not wanted and even hated. Let’s take a look at the 5 most…
What’s The Most Important Skill for a Senior Developer?
Photo by Eddy Klaus on Unsplash I often get asked what I think is the most important skill for a software developer. I think this question has different answers, depending on…
Is Fintech Overrated – Or Are We Underestimating It?
Quartz recently published an interesting think piece on whether or not the fintech revolution is overhyped, or understated. I was overjoyed – at last someone was brave enough to…
The Early Start-up Fallacies and Identifying Your Alphas
However educated you may think you are, you aren’t doing it enough. Are you building a start-up in your first few months, bootstrapping while maintaining another full-time job or gig,…