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Platform Engineer

A good engineer is a good ancestor.

Engineer a platform for delivering better products at scale.

Code is a means to an end — and that end is creating value. If you can achieve a goal without writing code, that is the best solution!

Benefits of not writing code:

  • less work to write functional code
  • less code and complexity to maintain
  • more time to create value elsewhere

An engineer that just does what it takes to make something work then finishes with no thought to improve the situation for the next person is not a team player and of little value in the long run, no matter how personally talented they are.

Toolkit​

Favorite tools for building platforms.

Blockchain​

What in your platform should be onchain? How do you decide which blockchain to invest building on? Which blockchain strategy is on the critical path to success?

  • Developer Experience
  • Developer Community
  • Peak Transaction Throughput
  • Data Oracles - GCP

Business Development

  • Grants
  • Network Effects
  • Marketing Assistance

Decision Tree

Flow​

Use dreams and engineering to make value flow.

  1. Create a trickle to establish a route.
  2. Engineer a process to create turn the trickle into a stream.
  3. Recruit a team to turn the stream into a river.
  4. Build a platform to turn the river into a flood.

Use first principles to reinvent assumptions though quantified bets.

Schema​