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Takeaways from reading How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. This book takes the ideas and insights from Adam Smith’s “The Theory of Moral…

Cracking The Coding Interview Details for the Cracking The Coding Interview study group. Sign up to get an invite to our discord if you’re…

I had fifteen minutes left, and I knew I was going to fail. I had spent two months studying for my first technical interview. I thought I…

My summary of the book The Master Switch by Tim Wu. A book about the Cycle: the oscillation of information industries from open systems (a…

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to solve the CodeWars invert values problem in JavaScript. You can also see this tutorial in video…

My notes from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. Also available free here. Table of contents Wealth Judgement Happiness Wealth Building wealth…

I’m currently taking freeCodeCamp’s JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certification for the first time and recording myself code as…

My notes so far from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas From The Computer Age by Paul Graham. Why Nerds Are Unpopular Hackers And Painters What…

David Ceddia’s Pure React course contains self-paced React workshops, the pure react book, and access to previous live events David has…

My notes from Not Caring What People Think Is A Superpower by Ed Latimore. Some limits are real. Some limits are imagined. You won’t know…

Link here to join the club. Sign up above and you’ll get a link to our private discord sent to your email. Alright, lets get to it… What is…

Are you learning JavaScript in 2020? Or are you a JavaScript developer who wants to level up his or her skills? Edit: the book club reached…

A photo of me (and some cool lady with sunglasses on) visiting the Art Institute in Chicago this summer. I wrote down a few of the things I…

If you’re learning JavaScript, you’ve most likely heard how important it is to learn the fundamentals. Problem is, you aren’t sure what the…

Photo by Esther Jiao on Unsplash. These are my notes from Functions Are Fundamental, chapter 3 of Secrets Of The JavaScript Ninja, a…

Image from Stripe Press. Below are some of the notes I jotted down while reading The Revolt Of The Public. These notes are by no means…

An ongoing list of books I love and would read again. Slowly adding my biggest takeaways from these books in the sections below. The Worldly…

Two years ago, I was right where you are today. I wanted to become a professional programmer. But I had no idea how to make it happen. I had…

When learning how to code, I kept hearing the same advice. “Tutorials are great, but building projects is the best way to learn. Just go…

Kent C. Dodds has a React beginners tutorial that starts with the absolute basics of React and it’s fantastic. It’s a free course so I can…

The basecs podcast is about computer science basics and based on Vaidehi Joshi’s base.cs blog series. I wrote up some notes on what I…

I’m in Tenerife, Spain with the entire Conversio team. Obligatory working from a hammock photo. Am I digital nomad yet? The whole team…

It has little to do with coding itself. It’s hard to teach yourself how to code because you’ve been told your whole life that you are…

Published at the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. When people find out I was homeschooled, they sometimes ask, “But did you learn? If I…

I was having a conversation with a friend the other week about a book I’m reading called Prisoners of Geography. At one point I said, “This…

Horseback riding is the most beautiful form of meditation. When you’re riding a horse, especially if you learn to gallop (a very fast pace…

1) She bought Madisonkanna.com when I was 10 years old. How many moms got their children’s names as domains when they were 10? She saw the…

The basecs podcast is about computer science basics and based on Vaidehi Joshi’s base.cs blog series. It’s a fun series to listen to if you…

When I was homeschooled growing up, I always imagined having dozens of friends. I had a few close friends, but never very many. Later I went…