Episode Details

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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