#138 Kristy-Leigh Minehan almost burned seeking a crypto highscore

Kristy took us from her early ROM-hacking years, all the way to her crypto-mining rabbit hole. She described in detail how she optimized her machines to ever-better mine cryptocurrencies. We then bifurcated toward the tale of how she almost changed the proof algorithm of Ethereum, became the center of a smear campaign, and earned a heavy burnout instead. We finally talked about helping developers as managers to not face those problems.

Here are the links from the show:

• Kristy's Twitter https://www.twitter.com/OhGodAGirl
• The Hackathon Kristy mentioned https://symbolplatform.com/hackathon

Credits

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Chapters

• 1:55 Start of Kristy's devjourney
• 4:40 From for-fun to making-money
• 18:57 Kristy's Ethereum ProgPOW proposal and burnout
• 32:12 Preventing burnout in the future
• 37:28 The manager perspective on burnout
• 41:28 Kristy's goal setting framework nowadays
• 47:14 From performance focus to elegance
• 49:04 Kristy's advice