briantmaurer

Next, security, privacy, and trust eat the world, and Keybase is in the perfect position.

• If you could have the resume you want, what would it say?

• If you could write your eulogy, what would it say?

(As the company/manager/advisor: How can we help you to get there?)

One of the most memorable days of my life was the day after I resigned from Amazon.

For most people, their decisions, stressors, happiness, etc. are largely defined by external forces – whether by school, work, finances, family, etc. For me, this was much more true than I realized. I had always thought of myself as someone who was highly independent. But, that following morning (and most mornings since) I woke up with a feeling of nearly complete autonomy. That feeling was much stronger than I expected. It has been incredibly freeing and has significantly affected how I approach life.

Since, I moved back to Minnesota and am currently working on my second project – https://mutambo.net. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to play recreational sports. We raised a small seed round and our remaining runway is a little over 1 year.

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My first project was put on pause after teaming up a with co-founder (Ex Google) and choosing another idea. I would like to finish the first project some day.

Now, I'm trying to do my part. I'm working on building Mutambo (https://www.mutambo.net) which is focused on helping everyone play recreational sports. To avoid becoming the Facebook for sports, a high priority goal of ours is to minimize the time you spend in app – to get you to your sporting events as efficiently as possible.

p.s. I studied computer science, am reasonably fluent in computer security, but not a crypto or bitcoin expert.

The link you shared above is a big upgrade.

Nonetheless, I learned many useful things in that introductory year of Graphic Design. The program placed a strong emphasis on design-thinking and critical feedback. Those skills are valuable in any line of work, especially in programming, which often requires artistic or creative thinking.

The graphic design courses also improved my code review process (toward self and others), and it improved how I think about usability when writing code – I focus much more on the next person who might work on/with my code.

I talk about Tesla a ton as well. My GF is similar, but with dogs. We made an agreement that whenever I talk about Tesla I have to replace 'Tesla' with 'dog'. She does the reverse.

Let me tell you, there is this new dog, it is so fast. And this dog has a low center of gravity which is great for handling. The craziest thing is that this dog can go from 0-60mph in just 2.8 seconds, it is ludicrous!

As a creator of technology, I would be more than happy to contribute to UBI so that I can both continue to innovate without restraint and guarantee that the people do not have to fear innovation as an instigator of their personal financial instability.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=react.js%2C%20angula...

Here is one example: https://stripe.com/jobs/positions/engineer

That single job listing (Engineer at Stripe) represents ALL of their Engineer hires, and likely 100x-1000x as many rejected applications as hires. That posting has been there for years. There are not enough qualified people to fill the role.

There are many, many companies that operate this way.

A single job posting can remain active indefinitely and does not necessarily represent just one open position.

This leads to the situation where an outsider sees one 'job posting' and thousands of applicants while Tech Co sees a shortage because only a few of those applicants are qualified.

Also, there is an incentive mis-match between people who realize there is a shortage and people wanting to prove that a shortage exists. If as a 'high quality engineer' you realize you are a scarce resource, and that makes you a lot of $, why would you want to convince other people to acquire the skills you have – self inflicted devaluation?

This is why the people with the loudest voices on this issue are CEOs and VCs who were previously high quality engineers. They have a clear view, the data, and the monetary incentive to vocalize it – more high quality engineers will increase their $.

Based on my own experience and the experiences of my friends (people who work as engineers for AWS, Google, Apple, Facebook, SpaceX, etc.), there is a big shortage in 'high quality' engineers.

e.x. A $1 increase on a $1 stock purchase yields a 100% increase, a $1 increase on a $100 stock price only yields a 1% increase. In this example, you should have purchased $100 worth of the $1 stock.

e.x. On the other hand, if have some $x less than $100, but you think the $100 stock is going to increase at a faster rate than the $1 stock, you should purchase x/100th of a share of the $100 stock.

[1] A stock's price is meaningful for two reasons. The sum of value of all shares defines the market capitalization for a company. Also, price can be used to exclude buyers in a socioeconomic way. This is rare, most companies will split the stock every so often to keep the price affordable. An example of an exclusionary stock is Berkshire A, which is currently priced around $180,000. Nonetheless, at the end of the day, as an investor, the only thing that matters is your expectation for the percent change in price.