Brian Cohen

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About Brian Cohen

I leverage green blockchain tech to build rewarding virtual economies, starting with Predictev, the category defining prediction game. Steve Jobs said it best:"One of the other things you can do with these powerful tools in addition to building a current complexity app 5-10 times faster, is build an app you couldn’t build on any platform. And that to me is the most exciting. Is to build an app you could not build on any other platform, because it’s all about managing complexity, right? You’re developers, you know that. It’s all about managing complexity. It’s like scaffolding, right? You erect some scaffolding, and if you keep going up and up and up, eventually, the scaffolding collapses of its own weight, right? That’s what building software is. It’s how much scaffolding can you erect before the whole thing collapses of its own weight."Doesn't matter how many people you have working on it. Doesn’t matter if you’re Microsoft with 3-400 people, 500 people on the team. It will collapse under its own weight. You read “The Mythical Man-Month”, right? The basic premise of this is a software development project gets to a certain size where if you add one more person the amount of energy to communicate with that person is actually greater than their net contribution to the project so it slows down. So you have local maximum and then it comes down. We all know that about software. It’s about managing complexity. These tools allow you to not have to worry about 90% of the stuff you worry about, so that you can erect your 5 stories of scaffolding, but starting at story number 23 instead of starting at story number 6. You can get a lot higher."