• Explaining abstraction interfaces through development libraries
    • using matplotlib as an example seaborn and pandas as a more constrained but easier package to work with
    • play between optionality and difficulty of use
  • The struggle between complexity of information vs virality of it
    • tie back to Nexus Book’s description of myths and how they much change as the growth of the information network increases.
  • The struggle between the bureaucracy that holds together an information network and the myths that drive it forward, also pulling off Nexus Book.
  • The requirements of a successful open source project that make it more difficult but also more resilient
    • you can’t control those that build on it, so expectation setting is paramount
    • benefit of giving all the “correct” information up front
    • ideal communication is a PR that doesn’t require back and forth for acceptance
    • what when how who??
      • FURPS Roadmap ( FURPS) Specs developer commitments (grants??)
  • The Developer experience and the feedback loop to engineers
  • Developing your Software Architect skills and their future use in AI development
  • Tokenomics as an ecology and how introducing new mechanisms is akin to introducing a new species into a niche that ruins it because it has no natural predators
  • The concept of scaling and the work/communication paradigm
    • how this is altered from an HPC environment to an adversarial distributed systems environment
  • The Socratic method and how doing interviews has helped me build this skill
  • The perfect note taking/writing application requirements
    • local first
    • collaborative
    • publishable
    • private/public domains