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Nick Szabo defines smart contracts as “a set of promises, specified in digital form, including protocols within which the parties perform on these promises.” In a 1996 paper Szabo argued that smart contracts have the potential to revolutionize digital markets by making it possible to automate the execution of contracts and reduce the need for trust between parties.

We’ve all dealt with co-workers who are bad at their jobs, but very good at making their incompetence your problem—from the boss who over-promises, (only to expect you to do all of the work) to the co-worker who can’t quite do their job, (but is all too happy to pass their work off to you). This habit of feigning incompetence at a task, so as to make it someone else’s responsibility, is called “weaponized incompetence,” and can show up at work in a number of different ways.