They say the best way to learn about something is to do it. I have recently built Partnerly.co to learn more about smart contracts and blockchain development.

Partnerly is a Web3 app that deploys a smart contract for you and your partner, which distributes the payments to the partnership contract in a predetermined split ratio.

It was fascinating to see how complex interactions like financial transactions are securely handled at a protocol level using this technology. You can send millions of dollars to a person with a single function call! It is powerful and dangerous since contracts are immutable and operations are final. I have written about my learnings at partnerly.co/learn in case you want to find out more.