I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
There are 70 days left to end the year. Are there goals you are yet to achieve? Boxing is something I hugely enjoyed as part of my fitness goals. Especially when it was against the spouse 🙂 Thanks to the excessive lifting though, I had an abdominal hernia and then COVID happened, throwing a spanner …
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Day 6 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Who will control the software that powers the internet with Web 3.0? Can decentralisation move the narrative from ‘Don’t be evil’ to ‘Can’t be evil’? 5 key take-aways Sources below #1 Over the 35 years lifespan of the internet, control gradually shifted from the open-source protocols to proprietary services …
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Sleep is the first thing I have compromised on when pushed for time. Like most folks. It helped that I can survive with very little of it. But starting tomorrow, I am getting back to my routine of journalling, meditation, workout and tracking my 7 hours of sleep So here is to my public #30DayChallenge …
Day 5 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Why do people invest in Crypto?  ‘The smartest and the dumbest people are on Crypto. Wonder what I should take away from that’, said someone on LinkedIn the other day. The global crypto market was $2.7T as of late 2021 As with any investment, there are early adopters, naysayers …
#Day4 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Understanding Bitcoin and Ethereum #1Bitcoin 101 : Created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto to be a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system, it is built on blockchain and thus shares the characteristics of being decentralised, immutable and open. It is also hard-capped (there will be only 21M bitcoin ever) and single-purpose ( …
#Day3 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Understanding Blockchain and How Transactions work #1 What is a Blockchain? Â ‘A blockchain is a linked list of transactions stored on a network of computers” A shared immutable ledger, if you will. #2 What are the defining properties of a Blockchain? They are ‘Decentralized’ (transactions happen on a network of …
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#Day2 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge On Ownership and how that is driving the future of software and Digital Economy #1 Why is Ownership the next step in software? “Ownership is a powerful motivator for users to contribute to products in deeper ways, be it with ideas, computing resources, code, or community building. … This results …
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Crypto has one feature that has never existed before – trust. – Ben Horowitz. I am doing a #30daysofWeb3 challenge in April. It is still early in the journey And the best thing you can do is to get educated. So here are 5 bullets on Day 1 – Why Web 3.0, Ownership and Tokens   #1 Why …
The other day I used Google’s AR feature to get a 3D Tiger in my living room. Much to the fascination of my 6 year old. Of the most intriguing of the Technologies of the Future is AR and VR. By mid 20’s estimates puts VR market at around $35 billion and it is hard …
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‘Diagonelly” says Harry Potter, instead of Diagon Alley – teleporting himself into a different place in the book, Chamber of Secrets. If you don’t fancy Floo Powder one could use Portkeys and Vanishing Cabinets for magically transporting self. What if, in reality, you could get from A to B, without moving your body. With tech …
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