A better way to build effective teams and facilitate career growth — Businesses are interesting. They usually start with an idea and a few people. Most of the time, they fizzle and die, but sometimes — about 10% of the time — they grow into something more. Of the survivors, many will reach a certain size before they plateau or decline, but…

A 2D world with spatially aware video conferencing — I’ve been a fully remote worker for about 8 years now. Right from the get-go, the most challenging parts of this setup have been staying connected and working transparently. Back then, our primary tools for communication were IMs and calls via Skype for Business. The biggest problem with Skype for…

Here’s a lightweight way to give them the skills they need — I watched a Simon Sinek lecture on YouTube the other day, and he said something that resonated with me. He observed that when you begin your career; you are trained to have the skills you need to do your job, and if you do the job well enough for long…

An easy but unintuitive process — Okay, so here’s the scenario: You’re a regular person in the US, and you have a little bit of crypto. You want to get in on some of that sweet defi action that you keep hearing so much about, but the fees on Ethereum are completely prohibitive to learning and…

They say if it sounds too good to be true… — May 18, 2021 update: Thank you to co-founder U-Zyn Chua and another Cake DeFi employee for their responses. Before we get too into this, you should know where I’m coming from. I’m relatively new to the crypto space, just getting into it toward the end of last year. Since that…

Achieve next-level performance with this 12-question, two-step process — The true measure of a company’s greatness is the volume and consistency of the greatness of its teams. It’s as simple as that. You might be sitting on the best idea in the history of the universe, but it’s all for nothing if you can’t execute. Great teams, however, can…

"DeFi" is more than just giving your crypto to someone you don't know, but there are certainly risks. One form of defi is providing liquidity. As users swap between the tokens you provide, you collect a share of the fees. No lending/borrowing, but you are giving your tokens to the…

No effort, no minimums — Theta Network has been very hot in the cryptocurrency & blockchain space recently. Its two tokens, THETA and TFUEL, both experienced explosive growth in March. THETA went from $3 to an all-time high of $14, earning itself a spot as a top-10 token by market cap. Similarly, TFUEL — the…

Decrypt’s Reader Token is a brilliant evolution that the news industry would do well to embrace — Last month, I wrote an article about Brave’s Basic Attention Token and the possibilities its model holds for big media outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post. Today these companies use annoying paywalls to encourage readers to subscribe. They broadcast headlines to news aggregators, but when you click…