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Blog of Brian Crain. Short posts on crypto, entrepreneurship, productivity, meditation & more.

Put Yourself First

You cannot expect anyone else to do this for you. You need to sleep and eat. You need some kind of exercise and take care of your health. You need time with friends and family. Maybe you need time in nature. Or to travel. Or...

What I Look For When Interviewing

I was asked by two people that I was interviewing recently what I look for in people. Here is the answer I gave: Curiosity for crypto. I'd like anyone we hire to have a genuine curiosity for crypto. They don't need to be an expert....

Urbit Questions

A few questions that I have been wondering about with regards to Urbit: Privacy. How does privacy work in Urbit? If most interactions are P2P and packets emit from my planet, wouldn't metadata be extremely revealing? Even if the packets themselves are end-to-end encrypted? How...

Writing and the Creative Process

So I've been trying to write a blog post for the last 30 minutes. I'm sure I had five ideas that would have made for fine posts. I'd start writing, but then cut myself off. Not good enough. Maybe I should write something else. It's...

Urbit

I've been aware of and fascinated by Urbit for a while. In 2017, Meher and I did an Epicenter podcast with Galen Wolfe-Pauly about Urbit. I recently listened to it again and it is great. I also bought a bunch of stars in 2018 and...