This was my favorite thing to have co-authored this year. The obvious audience for this report is current and prospective donors to Brink, and I think it does a great job of communicating how Brink's engineers help strengthen and enhance the network. But I also wanted to write a report that the engineers could show to their families to help communicate how meaningful the work they do is.
The families of many engineers don't really understand their loved one's work. They can't tell the difference between world-changing development and goofing off at the computer.
What would be great is to give Bitcoin contributors industry-leading salaries, more than megacorps pay for soul-crushing work. If your parents or partner knows you make $500,000/year, they won't think you're goofing off. But every satoshi spent on one contributor is a sat Brink can't spend on another talented contributor who wants to do the work but also needs an income.
Instead, Brink provides more modest grant amounts and focuses on giving engineers the opportunity to work on projects they personally find highly meaningful. For many people, that's a tradeoff they'll happily take. But if your parents or partner or friends have high expectations of you, it can be hard to communicate that you're just as much at the top of your game as a dev at a top-10 tech company even though you make less money.
Where that problem exists, I hope this report will help. Engineers receiving grants from Brink did so many extraordinary things this year. I was overcome with pride of being even a tiny part of the team. I hope both the objective set of accomplishments and the subjective awe will shine through to anyone reading about each engineer's accomplishments, especially their family.
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"But if your parents or partner or friends have high expectations of you..."
maybe that is the problem one should fix. it´s your life.
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