Adventures in Crypto is a weekly series focusing on my journey as a Zcash Foundation operations apprentice. Zcash Foundation is a 501(c) 3 non-profit whose mission is to build a truly private financial payment infrastructure for public use, and they support Zcash and the surrounding cryptocurrency community with research grants.
Oct 28, 2019 – Nov 1, 2019
What I’m Learning:
One cool thing I learned at work last week:
I have a greater feel for how my boss organizes and categorizes things via the edits she made to my to-do list. Being able to see her thought process laid out helped me tremendously since I now have a more professional way of organizing my tasks, projects, etc, and a better understanding of how she thinks.
One cool thing I learned outside of work last week:
A nonce is a computer that correctly guessed a number to add to a hash. Hashes are one-way functions and cannot be decrypted meaning you can’t go back and change the function.
What I’m Creating:
One example of how I created value at work last week:
I added new processes to the Internal Controls Operations Associate document, which details all my current responsibilities and steps on how to do them. Basically, this document is a training manual for my role like a dummies guide tailored to the Zcash Foundation operations team.
Additionally, I also added new tools and services that we use, and the description of its purpose, to Zcash Foundation’s Master Operations spreadsheet. The Master Operations spreadsheet is the go-to sheet for finding important links or documents relating to operations (or business side of things). My boss and I created this spreadsheet as a backup for the operations team in case a disaster falls on one of us or both.
What project I’m currently working on at my BP:
I’m currently working on planning the Nola retreat for the Foundation. I searched for activities to do, hotels, meeting rooms, and flight details for everyone, then entered the information into the spreadsheet that I created.
What I’m doing to become a better version of myself overall:
I’m brushing up on my networking skills. I had the opportunity to network in-person about a week ago at this art festival I attended with my dad and struck up a friendly conversation with the artists who were selling their work.