How to lose $400k overnight
Plus crash a 1700 person livestream. It's been a strange start to the year.
It's been a busy couple of months on the engineering front from hosting -and crashing ๐ - a 1700+ person engineering leadership live stream to raising our $50M Series B at LinearB to creating some stellar engineering leadership content - the best of which you can find below โฌ
I hosted a live stream event for 1700 software engineering leaders - and we managed to crash it in the first 5 minutes. Hereโs what we learned from fixing it.
I've hosted several recent episodes of Dev Interrupted, but I think my favorite might be this week's convo with engineering executive coach Lena Reinhard.
Building a successful engineering organization is not easy. Whether it's people and processes, technology, culture, or how your team communicates - we talked about all of them on this panel.
I also especially enjoyed my Interact session with Fable's CEO Alwar Pillai on the topic of inclusive development - a must-watch for anyone building digital products.
Oh uh, I also lost $400k in Luna ๐
Alright.. so a lot has been going on the past couple months on the dev front - but there's been even more going on in crypto, including a massive market sell-off and the overnight bankruptcy of the Terra network which I was heavily invested in.
You can catch up on how I lost out during the Terra crypto crash in the ABC article below, and to learn about all the development happening in Africa's Web 3 communities, make sure to tune into my upcoming spaces on Twitter.
One of the outcomes from the massive Luna crash? Some of my writing (see the Terra x Flux article I wrote) looks a little out of date - and I ended up on ABC Australia talking about how I screwed up my risk management with Luna/UST - I didn't think it would crash as fast as it did.
As a result, I'm out $400k. But I'm still here and I'm going to keep building.
I've also hosted several recent spaces bringing together different crypto and Web 3 communities - particularly as part of the IBC ecosystem - to talk about what the future looks like and what people are building. For many folks in the crypto community, itโs been a necessary process of discussing and healing from some challenging financial and personal losses. You can find them below, featuring more than 10,000 participants across the last couple of weeks ๐
The Luna X SCRT community Twitter space I hosted with Tor Bair on May 13th
I've got a lot more coming on the Web 3 content front - so stay tuned for more spaces!
What about climate tech?
With how busy I've been on the Web 3 and dev content side of things, it's been a pretty quiet time for me on Green Economy content - I still have 3 episodes of Growing the Green Economy waiting to be edited, which I'll look to get out later this summer after which I'm planning to put the show on a longterm hiatus to let me focus elsewhere.
However, that doesn't mean there are no new updates - one of my 2021 articles was even recently quoted in this Seattle Times piece on high gas prices - and why they can be a good thing ๐
I'll be back soon with new podcast episodes to close out the first season of Growing the Green Economy - I appreciate all of your patience with me as I get around to editing them.
I really enjoy writing these updates - and I hope you're enjoying them as well! For me, they help to let me zoom out, document, and remind myself of all the things I'm creating - even when on a weekly basis I often beat myself up for not doing more ๐
Plus, I always love hearing from people - want to collaborate on an upcoming Twitter Spaces or have something you think I should look into?
Hit me up on Twitter, I'm always happy to chat.
Hope you have a great weekend,
Conor