Random Notes and thoughts
This is a place where I will host some good reads, ideas, notes, and samples. This is a mix bags of learning that I am sharing, hoping this can be helpful.
While reading about What3Words recently, I was struck by the clever idea of encoding GPS coordinates into three memorable words. This immediately reminded me of BIP39 - the standard that encodes cryptographic keys into mnemonic 12 or 24 words. The concept of making complex data human-readable through simple words is powerful and can be applied to location.
Often times, people are traveling to France and asking “any recommendation ?”. Here are some notes, thoughts and ideas.
After joining Coinbase in January 2022, I had to exercise my writing skills, more specifically, my technical writing skills. People in the company are really, really good at writing. This article captures the essence of why this matters and how to get better at it. A lot of this was inspired from this excellent article from Arnaud Brousseau who is an amazing writer.
I gather in this page some of the key readings I believe can be helpful to others.
This structure also helped me navigate in that field. Not every item have links.
Note this is a living document. Yes, this can be messy.
In this post, I am trying to extract the essence of what makes blockchain similar and different from any other storage system. This is agnostic to any particular instantiation (Bitcoin, Ethereum, …) and is a general definition.