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Engineering Meets Economics: Shifting, Not Choosing, Between Centralized and Decentralized

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What if the real innovation is not centralization vs decentralization, but the ability to shift between them? It stops being about camps or philosophies—centralized vs decentralized—and starts being about resilience. Adaptability. Survivability. Malleability. The real stuff that makes or breaks systems under pressure.

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Engineering Meets Economics: Shifting, Not Choosing, Between Centralized and Decentralized

A Digital Identity Digest

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What if the real innovation is not centralization vs decentralization, but the ability to shift between them? It stops being about camps or philosophies—centralized vs decentralized—and starts being about resilience. Adaptability. Survivability. Malleability. The real stuff that makes or breaks systems under pressure.

… continue reading

7 episodes

#Tech #News #Self-Improvement #Tech News #Heather Flanagan #Podcasting Education

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Delegation in a Multi-Actor World: It’s Not Just OAuth Anymore 12:03

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Once upon a time, digital systems were built around a beautifully simple idea: one user, one identity, one device, one intent. That model worked, for some value of "worked." Mostly, it was good enough to solve 80% of the use cases.

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Acting on Behalf of Others: Delegation, Consent, and Messy Reality 12:18

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Most digital systems were built around a simple model: one user, one identity, one device, one intent. If you need more than that, that's what password sharing is for, right? (Note: that was sarcasm.) Who needs delegation? Reality, which has definitely included sharing passwords, has always been messier.…

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Why Governance Decides If Decentralization Works 11:23

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The tech is ready for decentralization. The governance is not. This is the final post in a four-part series exploring decentralization not as a buzzword, but as a series of hard tradeoffs that digital infrastructure teams, architects, and strategy leads must navigate.

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Redefining Success: Centralization as a Feature or a Failure? 9:41

24 days ago9:41

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What if centralized dominance is just what success looks like in our current system? Today, I want to take a step back and ask: Why is it so hard to justify decentralization in the first place? What are we really rewarding when we call a system “successful”?

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The Cost of Decentralization: What Companies Need to Weigh Before They Commit 12:33

4 weeks ago12:33

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It’s easy to say you want more control over your systems. But the cost of decentralization in money, complexity, and overhead can hit hard when the invoice arrives. This week, we’re taking that one step further: If flexibility or even malleability is the goal, how much are you willing to pay for it?

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Engineering Meets Economics: Shifting, Not Choosing, Between Centralized and Decentralized

5 weeks ago

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What if the real innovation is not centralization vs decentralization, but the ability to shift between them? It stops being about camps or philosophies—centralized vs decentralized—and starts being about resilience. Adaptability. Survivability. Malleability. The real stuff that makes or breaks systems under pressure.…

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Trailer 1:26

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