Matt Warren

Author: Matt

  • Crypto Currency Rabbit Hole

    Over the last several weeks I have been getting deeper and deeper with my crypto currency investments and knowledge. I have been a long time holder of bitcoin and purchased my first few way back in 2013 when 1.0BTC was roughly $50. I bought a couple more last year. In the most recent couple of…

  • Keep Moving Forward

    My current project is picking up. The more I think about it the more excited I become about the potential value that will be created with it. Things took a significant step forward on Friday with a meeting with an accountant firm and corporate lawyer.  I’m taking the weekend to think through the options they gave…

  • Naming is Hard

    There’s a quote in Computer Science – “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”  Well, naming things is hard for everyone. Everyone brings to the table a history of accumulated connotations and associations such that the meaning of everything is different to each and every one of us.…

  • Maintaining Focus and Passion

    My current side project is a bit bigger in scope than I had imagined when I set out my goals at the beginning of the year. With any large project it can be difficult to stay focused and passionate about continuing to work on it. For this project, the more I think about it, the…

  • The Problem With Open Source

    Open Source software has been on my mind a lot the last few weeks with regards to a problem that exists within the community. The world is built on the shoulders of Open Source software. If you look at any tech startup out there,  they are more public code than proprietary. We leverage open source…

  • Consider Your Loss Aversion Bias

    Loss aversion is the preference we have to avoid losing $5 compared to gaining $5.  It’s logically the same value in this example but yet some studies have shown that we are twice as likely to favor avoiding the loss.  This effect plays out multiple different ways in our lives.  We tend to hold on to…

  • Team Communication Overhead Costs

    I’m in the middle of undertaking a large software project – something that could take 200 hours to get to an MVP. I wanted to get things organised. My first thought was to use some of the tools I’m used to – Trello for a kanban style board, bug tracking, continuous integration services, Slack. But…

  • Finding a Coach

    Learning new things that affect the core of your being is a challenge not many people take upon themselves.  Yet it could be the personal pivot you need to make a genuine change. Many years ago I took a Dale Carnegie course, it showed me a side of myself that I couldn’t get from my…

  • Brainstorming Week

    After reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future I was pretty charged up and inspired to start working on something more long term and meaningful. Since the book was published Elon has also gone on to create several more businesses that weren’t mentioned – OpenAI, The Boring Company, and NeuraLink.…

  • Brilliance of Elon Musk

    Either you’re trying to make something spectacular with no compromises or you’re not. And if you’re not, Musk considers you a failure. Of all the entrepreneurs in the world, none have the same ambition that Elon has to make the future into the present. For that I have a ton of admiration. Science fiction has…