If you're considering freelancing / consulting as a career, you should listen to the Being Freelance podcast hosted by Steve Folland.
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Sometimes I wonder if even the best learning app / edtech product has a significant chance of improving learning outcomes.
The higher order bit is in how the student lives their life outside of the app.
It's so important to have hobbies like reading books, taking on challenging intellectual tasks outside of the curriculum, solving puzzles, reading the news critically, having good conversations and debates with people. These are all inputs that make most of the difference.
Substack has replaced a lot of Twitter usage for me. I just came across this post by Amie McNee on not wanting a corporate job and it resonated so much with me.
The article touched on the exact thing I was afraid of as soon as I graduated from college and suffered through a "BS" job for a few months before having the courage to quit and pursue my long-term goal of building interacting learning experiences using tech.
Happy 20th Birthday to the Django web framework! Check out this podcast by Talk Python featuring two of Django's creators and a few prominent members of the community to learn more.
I'm zooming through Flexbox thanks to the FlexBox Zombies game. It uses spaced-repetition and gamification to help you learn CSS Flexbox.
Going forward, whenever I use Flexbox I'll probably pretend to target a bunch of zombies.
Flexbox Zombies is an example of edtech done right. Let's aim higher than creating plain old video tutorials.
Does anyone else dislike the idea of having a separate subdomain for the main app vs the landing page? I get that it's easier for the marketing team, but as a user who only remembers the bare domain for most web apps I use, this solution is inelegant.
These days we blame social media for keeping kids glued to screens when they should be playing outside instead.
But I remember during the 90s and early 2000s, Cartoon Network and other kids' channels played their best kids shows in the evening just when kids should have been outside.
What is new is old.
Who else subscribes to YouTube premium because they don't have time to watch ads but happily watch 1 hour podcasts which are essentially ads on the same platform?
Now listening to Fine Without You by Armin van Buuren feat. Jennifer Rene
Now listening to Patience by Take That