That's a great article that always deserves a read once or twice a year. > Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer

That's a great article that always deserves a read once or twice a year. > Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away. This sentence so succinctly summarizes the current "blockchain" craze that it's hard to believe he wrote it in 2001.