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PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵

I am a researcher and analyst that works across a lot of software domains, jerk-of-all-trades and master of none. I read code but don't ship much that's oceanworthy. I think more about economics and governance and law than 99% of software people do, because I see regime change around every corner.

A huge chunk of my work since going fulltime in software has been on "decentralizing" "identity-tech", putting me in the fringe of account/login/verification/KYC land, a pile of wormcans that 99% of software folks would LOVE to outsource and forget. For context, see: www.igalia.com/chats/vcs

I've also worked on a lot of cryptocurrency projects, including some KYC tooling for Circle, standardization processes within and across various blockchain scenes, informed by much of that "single-sign-on without hooli/apfel" research mentioned above chainagnostic.org

Before going fulltime in software a decade ago, I studied and taught fiction and philosophy, doing lots of translation and language teaching for good measure. I wrote the preface to the American edition of the Eternaut, which is in print (and topical!) again: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As an exercise in dogfooding, I host copies of my public presentations and podcast appearances at video.archive.bumblefudge.com , which can also be followed from ActivityPub clients if that's useful to you.

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