Mo Shafieeha

In today's world, startups face greater challenges than ever in being truthful. We live in a massive reality distortion bubble fueled by yield-chasing capital inflows into technology. To tell the truth, we must accept risks, unresolved problems, and mistakes. Most company failures are caused by teams, not individuals, making it even harder to tell... See more

The cloud developer environment is expensive and heavy and cannot be used offline. It is severely affected by latency. The obvious answer is to move web development to the web, as Google Docs and Figma did for knowledge workers. As a result of WebAssembly's increasing maturity and new browser capabilities, the browser-as-operating-system continues... See more

Anticipate Failure Anything that could improve connectivity is a positive thing to look forward to. The key is keeping client latency low and ensuring clients are prepared for very high traffic with cache control, sidecars, timeouts, circuit breakers, and retries. In addition to improving healthy signals from the services, it's critical to... See more

Do centralized platforms always win due to speed? It appears that history will repeat itself (web2x2) in two potential ways: extensive protocol innovation is a fool's errand, and Slack will always outpace Ethereum's IRC, as with web2. Could some decentralized projects look more like an empowered engineering team than a standards body meeting... See more

According to Dr. Emily Balcetis, there's a strong correlation between proximity to a goal and how much you invest and how much you put into it. Try setting challenging goals that will challenge you, but won't make you feel overwhelmed - and - not easy enough that it doesn't take much effort on your part. People who are overweight and deconditioned... See more

It has been cited that Apple's unusual organizational structure has enabled it to innovate over the years. Organization design is taught through the lens of organizational structure in most MBA programs. For decades, there has been a recurring debate over functional vs unit organizations. A company's organizational structure is one of the most... See more