Bernardo Salazar

But in the end, gravity still works, and a balloon can be inflated only so much. The bitcoin bubble is an artifact of market manipulation and has no more economic substance than the Hawk Tuah coin does. The U.S. government may be ripe for plunder, but other nations need to take steps to shield themselves from the impact of rug-pulling on a global s... See more

Bitcoin remains a strangely useless asset that doesn’t do anything. All you can do with it is buy, sell, or hold. The only use for cryptocurrency other than pure zero-sum speculation is bitcoin’s original use case: evading regulations, most often for illegal purchases, money laundering, or dodging sanctions.

Crypto is seen as the domain of cheap scammers. Ordinary people are not flocking into crypto.

But crypto trading is thin and almost entirely unregulated—perfect conditions for commodity market manipulation.

Tech is destructive if it operates outside of core human values and holistic, empathetic thinking. Those STEM disciplines are useful, but only when they contribute to human flourishing.

If AI enables computers to think, computer vision enables them to see, observe and understand.

Understandability is one of the most basic needs of readers of a piece of code. Optimizing for understandability can result in optimizing for everything else on the hierarchy depicted above. Understandable code is code that lends itself well towards being debugged . Code can often be debugged with a test case. Code that’s easy to test is, as often ... See more

Had our ancestors been asked to predict what would happen in an age of widespread prosperity in which most religious and cultural proscriptions had lost their power, how many would have guessed that our favourite activities would not be fiery political meetings, masked orgies, philosophical debates, hunting wild boar or surfing monstrous waves, but... See more

the majority of my learning occurs while working through the challenges of my daily work, and I think that’s an important goal to optimize for when trying to learn quickly enough to remain in-role at a growing company.