Peeking under the hood

I was in high school in the late 90s during the heydey of the ER medical drama, and I was absolutely convinced I wanted to be a doctor. My father's advice at the time was to study chemical engineering in college instead of pre-med so that if I ever decided I DIDN'T want to be a doctor, at least I would have some other skills and options. After my freshman year in 1997, I realized there were just too many interesting things going on in technology and switched to electrical engineering. I started working in fintech just before the dot-com crash in 2001, and it's been fascinating to watch the rise of high frequency trading machines, dark pools, sub-microsecond exchange latency, and of course, cryptocurrencies.

Along the way I learned just enough about programming to get myself in trouble. So I'm going to set up a steem node on my Amazon linux EC2 instance, just to see if I can do it by following the build guide. It might end up going a whole lot of nowhere, but I've already learned how to use git, set up compilers and libraries, and run the make scripts, so the effort will not go wasted. It's all about the journey!

P.S. @dan and @ned, if you're interested, the navigation links on the right hand side of the build instruction page appear to be dead: