Tengji Zhang

Avalanche is Chicago: trying to be the next Wall Street, but newer, cheaper, more aggressive. It specializes in finance and trading. 

Gives a brilliant and very cynical description of the Ponzi nature of yield farming in DeFi. Shed some light on how it is no so different from startups nowadays that keeps raising more money despite net negative return, as long as they have a grand narrative with a big promised profit at the end.

Cabin has no formal job application process, geographic requirements, or time-bound commitments for completing bounties. It’s like playing Minecraft. You have some agency and all these tools. You get to decide where to apply them.

Decentralization Naval:  Some people may say you guys are not  decentralized and  only  getting away with this because  you don't have Feds knocking down  doors.  Could you still work if you guys were  forbidden from working?  Who could  survive that level of assault?

L2s matter — skyscraper technology is essential to scaling any city — but they are not the end of the story. L2s are an “and”, not an “or”.

On-chain identity matter because current professional identities are uninformative and rely on trust instead of verification.

How to process a book: 

• Jump mid-way through and ask do I want to have got here. If the answer is yes then read from start more carefully.