Titans Journal Day 48: Bitcoin Pizza Day & Cloud Workforce

Special thanks to @BraydenTW for giving his professional feedback on the Titans logo. IH community is awesome!

I finally fixed a bug preventing the flow from completing. My mind gets pre-occupied at all times when I'm stuck with something. Feeling so relieved now finally I can reply to comments and write on IH.

Bitcoin Pizza Day

Today, May 22, 2020, is the 10th year anniversary for the Bitcoin Pizza Day. Back in 2010 this day, a Florida engineer, Laszlo Hanyecz, spent 10,000 bitcoins for two Papa John's pizzas delivered. Right now, BTC worths $9,185.83 according to Coinmarketcap, which makes the cost of those two pizzas $91.85 million!

How are you gonna celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day? Maybe by reading the whole story in detail on Investopedia?

Cloud Workforce

More and more high tech companies are going 100% remote or remote-first. Airbnb, Coinbase, Facebook, Mastercard, Shopify, and Twitter, etc., the list goes on.

It is hard to change behavior. While there were remote-only companies, and all companies that I worked for in the Bay Area have work-from-home days, but the remote-work adaptation has been slow. The pandemic has forced large companies to examine the possibilities and it is not hard for most of them to finally adopt this remote culture.

As some of my CISO friends have told me, they've been working on new policies for preparing the re-opening of the offices. There will be a lot of unprecedented things to deal with. Social distancing and sanitization policies, the norm in the office will be altered forever. If any pandemic happens in the workplace, the liabilities from potential lawsuits could be huge. It is not hard to see why remote-first could be the best option available.

As more and more people are now part of the "cloud workforce", I wonder what would happen to the large "campuses". Will Google's plan to build a 20,000 people campus in San Jose change after 2020? Will that affect the office rent and commercial real estate prices? And how is that gonna affect the businesses of restaurants and bars in the area?

For those who are enjoying the premium salary of the Bay Area, if they do move out, they could save up a lot more money and time, and would that lead to a pressure to lower the pay scale? Would that also relieve the housing prices in the Bay Area? Will the surrounding cities' housing prices boom if more people are moving to smaller towns?

I don't know the answers, but I realize that "the only constant in life is change" is real. As we grow older and wiser, we tend to also become more opinionated and rely too much on experience. Like being a developer, we have to constantly learn new things and adapt to newer frameworks, so is life. If changing behavior is hard, it is even harder to change the mind. For example, the shifting of the mindset of "owning things" from my generation to the "experience things" from the millennials, has a profound impact on decision making. It would be hard to comprehend the new trends if we set our mind in the mold of the past. And this is the juncture where everything is about to change, and change fast. As an indie hacker, this is a golden time as there will be tons of new demands from the big changes.

What are the things you anticipate to experience huge changes? What are the new demands that we can build as indie hackers? Please don't be shy to share in the comments!