Alan Fairless

Multidisciplinary technologist / founder. love security, privacy engineering, & cryptography. Currently hardware hacking k12 ed.

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@jswihart I've known Daira-Emma since 2012. DE's work itself and the example of extreme quality in which it's performed (design, spec, docs, code writing, code review, with clear communication and nurturing of other contributors) are a gift to the world. Thank you!

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@jswihart I've known Daira-Emma since 2012. DE's work itself and the example of extreme quality in which it's performed (design, spec, docs, code writing, code review, with clear communication and nurturing of other contributors) are a gift to the world. Thank you!

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@paulg @dapppunk What do you think about feedback+competition? i.e. n admissions teams, applicants randomly assigned, and other teams can pick up applicants declined by the first team. For evaluating teams, what's the best way to protect against Goodhart's Law?

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@garrytan My wife asks "Why do you always have to do everything in the hardest way possible?"

I usually reply "Why doesn't anyone else have any standards?" :-)

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@paulg @sarmadgulzar especially when commenting. explaining refines understanding

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

This post by the Board of Directors of Bootstrap (Alan Fairless, Christina Garman, Zaki Manian, and Michelle Lai)—about me stepping down from the Board—is too kind. I’m humbled and honored to read it, but if you read it, know that the achievements are really due to the team. ⤵️

[Zcash Open Development Lab @zodl_co]

Bootstrap’s loss is the @Zcash community’s gain. While we will miss his leadership at Bootstrap, we’re thrilled that @zooko is refocusing his work on Zcash elsewhere, continuing to contribute his one-of-a-kind skills and energy to building momentum in a new project, further decentralizing development, and fortifying Zcash resilience.
https://t.co/2hr2ual7nb

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@paulg @platowizard Notice a sunbeam passing through a glass of water onto the table. Slosh the water, creating different lensing and patterns of brightness on the table

[Suhail @Suhail]

If you let your company waste money, never look at margins, never negotiate with vendors, and allow expenses to recur regardless of use, a company will absorb fat infinitely until you have no money left.

The only way to fight that is to instill discipline to not waste.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

This resonates, too! You can learn a lot from surveys and interviews, but you get a lot of *different* and product-specific insights by sitting quietly and watching someone try to use your prototype, or a competing product.

https://t.co/fQWisWaU0N

⤵️

[Solomon 👤 @Selkis_2028]

Zooko pulled forward zk research by ten years by launching Zcash.

One of the highest ratios of value created vs. value extracted that I've seen in crypto.

Change my mind.

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@LeahLamarr Thanks for a fun show plus better chosen outfit than the poster!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Oklahoma plans to kill Richard Glossip on May 18. The state's own attorney general has said that this would be a "grave injustice," but other people in Oklahoma are determined to go ahead and kill him. Sound crazy? Keep reading; it gets crazier.

[The Tor Project @torproject]

Mark your calendar for a Network Privacy panel at #Zcon2Lite from @ZcashFoundation!

Hear from Tor's George Kadianakis + other blockchain & privacy specialists, @giuliacfanti, @alanfairless, & Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira Filho.

📆 Wed., June 9 @ 8:35 UTC
📍https://t.co/xJpCR0nlhI

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@dmourati The src is surprisingly readable!

[Alan Fairless @alanfairless]

@PeaweeMatt for vmbuilder, maybe set TEMP to something else?