I recently studied for and took the GRE. A few friends have asked me for tips in how to prepare so I wanted to write a quick guide on how I would approach the process. 1) Take a practice test to understand where you stand This should be your first step. I immediately realized verbal was going to be the…

Pitch decks are important. They serve as the founder’s guide to telling their story and are often the first thing a VC reads. I see 20+ pitch decks a week and wanted to publish what I have found to be the most effective template. Team Necessary assumptions (what theses do…

How developers, designers, dreamers, and doers can contribute to Celo. — I’m a big fan of Celo and like many eagerly await the main net launch early next year. While there are many projects with ambitious goals, Celo stands apart. The mission is admirable, the technology is ground-breaking and the team is best in class. The coolest part is that whether…

A guide to understanding Decred in less than 10 minutes — WHAT IS DECRED? Decred is a cryptocurrency that aims to improve some of the major shortcomings of Bitcoin, namely governance and funding. Today in Bitcoin anyone can contribute, but it’s a small group of developers who decide what changes get merged into the Bitcoin Core repository which arguably gives this subset of programmers…

A quick guide to understanding the different motivations in crypto — Written by @caseykcaruso and @neverdidanything In 2008 the Bitcoin paper described a world which would allow “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.” People saw this vision and ran with it. But they didn’t just run, they sprinted, and in…

I participated in the the EOS Hackathon this past weekend with my friend Olive and we created a game called Wild Ones. As an engineer, I like to think of blockchains as simply a new way to store, interact and retrieve data. That’s really it. I have thought long and…

As an engineer and an early stage investor I find the technical interview process fascinating, especially at startups. I see a lot of startups copying the interview process of large organizations which makes little sense because I believe startups are inherently looking for different engineers than Google. Normally startups are…

I gave this presentation at Columbia University back in April of 2018 for a non-technical audience. Hoping this high-level overview of scalability is helpful for others. Please note one correction, Ethereum’s min deposit is going to be 32, not 100. This has changed over the last six months since creating…

A computer is one of today’s most powerful tools. Let’s use that tool as efficiently as possible. Be more productive and stop fumbling with your mouse. Here are the 9 must-know, least-known shortcuts to help you master your Mac. Research shows that we are conditioned to remember 9 items at…