> Git is the single largest influence on me. After that, various other papers (all the CAN literature, bitcoin/bittorrent, CRDTs, etc), and conversations with people. in particular, two close friends (jzim, davidad).

Oh, interesting.

Funny coincidence: I actually met davidad once, when I first starting out at my job. I think because of his asynchronous logic automata. We somehow ended up discussing busy beaver Turing machines over ice cream†.

† Toscanini's near MIT, fantastic ice cream.