Just do some squats

About this Episode

This week we discuss NPM corruption, why Web3 may not be different and the future focus of Hyperscalers. Plus, some thoughts on Dutch Doctors.

Rundown

• NPM corruption
  • Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
  • Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps
• Web 3 is exciting because incumbents like solving known problems
  • Computing and data infrastructure in '22
  • Aneel Lakhan take on Web3 and the need for a currency but not necessarily bitcoin via The Cloud Cast.
• Reasons why Web3 may not be all that different
  • Matt Mullenweg on Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0
  • My first impressions of web3
  • The Cloud Cast episode Look Ahead VC Funding
• Maybe Hyperscalers should just focus in on primitives?
• I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months.

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