Title Industry on a Blockchain

The residential real estate title industry as it exists today is an incredibly complex and wasteful system. Data is controlled by regional "plants", and the lack of even a traditional centralized reporting structure for titles and policies requires wasteful legal infrastructure when issues arise. I believe that the Title industry is a perfect candidate for Web3. What if there was a decentralized ledger for property ownership, programatic enforcement of policies, and tokens for data creation and validation?

Continue reading →

How to choose between multiple job offers

Choosing your next job is hard! So many emotions can get in the way of making the best choice. This trade-off analysis framework can reduce stress by making the final decision more objective.

Continue reading →

The Systems Engineering Process

The Systems Engineering Process taught to me by Terry Bahill is based on the acronym SIMILAR. I recommend it to any systems engineer, software developer, architect, or problem solver.

Continue reading →

The useApi Hook

For a long time now, React has required us to use separate processes when we want remote data to live in component state vs redux. Using hooks, we can use a single, simple mechanism to do either.

Continue reading →

Domain Models in React

Every application has a domain model, a set of nouns that it uses to describe its data and interactions. I would like to share a battle-tested method for building a consistent domain model into your front-end applications that is easy to maintain and easy to reason about.

Continue reading →
More posts →