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Yes, it feels like the future every time I put it on. For work, the ultra wide has been wonderful when I'm not at my desk. I also get to have the NBA playoffs to the side on a 10ft…

15 years on Heroku, absolutely no regrets and would do it again and again and again. It's one of those "no one goes there because it's too busy" type of situations. Don't fall for …

I'm B2C and selling ed to students is an eye-opening experience. It's actually very easy to get people to pay, so the problem isn't conversions. The problem for me is that if you k…

Great observations. I've been in the edu (coding school) space for over a decade and it tracks with my experience (though it seems you've tackled a lot more market segments than I …

We have a saying at Launch School: habits over enthusiasm. I've noticed that wanting it isn't enough. Desire is fine but what the real key is a commitment to studying. I think we'r…

How far along are you? I like what Recurse Center is doing, for example.

I think you have to be careful about looking at the diverse student body as "giving them an opportunity". For example, predatory for-profit universities specifically target low-inc…

I'm the founder of Launch School and I have been thinking about ISAs, coding bootcamps, and software ed for over a decade. I've tried to insert my thoughts here and there, for exam…

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this topic and I've come to the conclusion that the best generic advice for folks in your situation is to be under-employed, ie a job where …

I'm embarrassed to say that even after spending nearly a decade operating a mastery-based software engineering school, I've only just heard about this paper now. And having read it…

Interesting observation and aligns with my experience of really enjoying small focused tools and apps. This website is a good example. Further, it feels like there's a corollary he…

For me it's not shocking that any one person can be this cruel. What's difficult to process is how entire social structures and institutions can be this cruel.

Since they're on the market looking for jobs, our graduates are pretty easy to find so any company can just contact them directly without partnering with us. There's no real way to…

Hey Adam! This is the weekly check-ins during your job hunt we did. I guess your job hunt duration was too short, so maybe you didn't do too much of this :)

It's rarely 8 hours a day "applying to jobs". This is similar to an employer saying "you should work 40 hours/week". In that 40 hours are lots of varied activity, including breaks …

This is a smart comment because this is exactly what we run into (I operate a coding school that uses ISAs). Employers love our graduates, but if we charged employers, we'd have to…

For the past 6 years, I've operated a software engineering school[1] that uses ISAs and I have some thoughts about them. There are two main stated benefits to using ISAs (there are…

This is something that mastery-based learning solves pretty cleanly. Or more accurately, in a MBL pedagogy, there's no need for faster/gifted or slower/remedial paths. All the deba…

If I were to guess, the money is actually in writing about the experience and parlaying it to an entry into Angel or VC.

Long-time MicroConf attendee (and one time sponsor). Still, YC has an outsized influence on young people and I'd like to see the bootstrap model expressed as a more obtainable path…

IMO, there needs to be a bootstrapping track. Perhaps the bootstrapping track should even be the primary one. Of course YC won't do this, but IMHO, bootstrapping leads to the best …

This is a disgusting comment. I have family members at the protest site. They are non-violent Americans protesting what they believe in.