Cryptocurrencies are stored in and transmitted to addresses. A Wallet address looks something like this.

Blockchain based digital assets can potentially serve as value protection, safety, and security in a world where western central banks and governmental institutions have diminished in effectiveness. Over the last half-century, these elite-led institutions have failed us in two ways. The destruction of nation-state fiat currency via monetary debasement and runaway inflation. The pernicious erosion of private freedom via albeit well-intentioned financial technology regulation.

Gutenberg Printing Press (1440) | Pacioli Double Entry Bookkeeping (1494) == Berners Lee World Wide Web (1989) | Nakamoto Bitcoin (2008)

Most guides provide theoretical and abstract advice. The few practical guides out there are either outdated or ridiculously over-priced. I tried to make this guide as practical as possible. Most books and courses focus on the interview stage, which I have covered in this guide. However, I also spend a lot of time talking about the other 60%: finding the right company, finding the right role, getting a referral, and what to do between interview stages. These things are not entirely dependent on luck. There are proven methods. This guide demystifies them.

Genetic editing is a topic that has come under major scrutiny recently. About a month ago, a Chinese scientist reported that he had created the world’s first genetically edited baby using the “CRISPR” (1) technology. Various news and media companies have been focusing on this issue from unidimensional perspectives. I believe a more thorough, inter-disciplinary, PPE (philosophy, politics, economics) style analysis of this topic is necessary to understand the importance and the deeper implications of genetic editing. In this paper, I ponder the moral, ethical, philosophical, economic, and biological dilemmas that genetic editing and human germline alteration bring.

I am an optimist about the role of technology, automation, and AI in contributing to the productivity levels and economic output of our species. Yet, from a metaphysical perspective, I am particularly wary of what can happen when AI is able to gain a level a general intelligence at par with our species.

Some believe that the application of blockchain and cryptoeconomics to all facets on technology is as inexorable as the increasing entropy in a closed loop system. This is probably true in the extreme long term. However, in the short to medium term, applying cryptoeconomics to an existing technology company without assiduously analyzing all possible scenarios could result in an instantiation of Braess’s Paradox.