You might have noticed that updates has been slow on the StakeTree side of things. I’ve got some news to share! StakeTree will be finding a new home. — - I started StakeTree in October 2017, dedicated to learn Ethereum development and get deeper into this community. The MVP &…

Every time I send a transaction on a blockchain, I can’t help being amazed. I am sending value over the internet, instantly, with no intermediaries. With Ethereum this can even happen with certain conditions, all governed by a piece of code that every computer on the network can verify. Being…

Lex Sisney put forth a really great hypothesis in his book, Organizational Physics: that organizations are complex adaptive systems that respond to energy in very similar ways that the laws of physics interact with the environment. It’s a really great book for anyone who runs a business. But it gives…

On Friday 23rd of June, it’ll be my last day at Buffer. I’ve decided to take a leap and do something a bit different. I applied for a front-end developer position on July 4th 2013, but my journey with Buffer started earlier that, in 2011, when I became a customer…

Transparency in Engineering — As a company that already has all of their employees’ salaries online, we often get asked how far we will go with transparency. …

I read a pretty neat book last year in my search to become a better manager. It’s called Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency, written by the same author of the now almost classic Peopleware. A key message in Slack was the idea that companies…

My girlfriend, a few years ago, proposed an interesting thought, how well do I really know my friends & family? My initial thought was that I did know these people. We all get along and things are great. I’m friendly, they’re friendly. What more is there? …

Written at hotel #18 — In August I was given the amazing opportunity to join Buffer as a front-end developer. At that time I was living in Taipei teaching English. Buffer is a distributed company so I whilst I coded for them I was able to continue teaching. At the end of October I left…