• AWS and Blockchain: Great piece about the evolution of blockchain / bitcoin awareness and thinking at aws. It started out as something that was hard to think about in terms of the problems it could help solve and didn’t evolve much beyond that. There were of course people who made money from the hype and many many more who lost lots of it. Very insightful remark towards the end I’ll have to keep reminding myself about:
    • “As a lifelong technologist, I’ve always been dubious about technology as a solution to a political problem …”