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Episode 339: Just do some squats


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

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  • 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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