Mo Shafieeha

Read plenty of "what went wrong" eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. But also know that the lens from which they tell you the answer is flawed and narrative biases are present.

Smart contracts assist participants in governing cooperatively in upcoming decentralized networks, drastically reducing coordination costs. DeFi and NFT communities face a major challenge in managing collective decision-making to optimize funds and operations. These revolutionary networks have aligned incentives and common interests without a... See more

Why Reliability Matters Reliability means you won't have any problems with your services, no matter how complex and dependent. In typical reliability cases, availability is the focus, but sometimes terms get mixed up and misused. Distribution systems can only guarantee two out of three things - availability, fault tolerance, and consistency - so... See more

Popular belief holds that making the right decision is the most challenging part. I have found that making a decision you don't want to make is the most challenging part of the process. You can terminate your subordinate, quit your job, lay off a quarter of your employees, and break up with your partner if things don't seem to go well.

You can combine free services with physical goods or businesses unrelated to pure-play software. Fitness bands will come with a growing range of software, but if supplements have a higher margin, the band and software may be given away. "Free parking" business models risk companies giving away their products in the technology business with no... See more

Mindsets

• Sees the whole picture


• Engages different perspectives to see new leverage points in complex systems


• Looks for relationships and how parts interact


• Looks for unintended consequences


• Thinks circularly; not linearly


• Embraces complexity


• Questions assumptions