Bookshelf 📚 How Adam Smith Can Change Your LifeTakeaways from reading How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. This book takes the ideas and insights from Adam Smith’s “The Theory of Moral…Last updated: 18 Dec 2022
Coding Cracking The Coding Interview: Study Group DetailsCracking The Coding Interview Details for the Cracking The Coding Interview study group. Sign up to get an invite to our discord if you’re…Last updated: 30 Aug 2022
Coding JavaScript How to Solve Coding ProblemsI 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…Last updated: 08 Feb 2021
Bookshelf 📚 The Master Switch Book SummaryMy summary of the book The Master Switch by Tim Wu. A book about the Cycle: the oscillation of information industries from open systems (a…Last updated: 22 Jan 2021
Coding JavaScript How to Find the Additive Inverse of Each Number in JavaScript [CodeWars Challenge Solved]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…Last updated: 13 Jan 2021
Bookshelf 📚 The Almanack of Naval RavikantMy notes from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. Also available free here. Table of contents Wealth Judgement Happiness Wealth Building wealth…Last updated: 05 Dec 2020
Coding JavaScript Completing freeCodeCamp's JavaScript And Algorithms CertificateI’m currently taking freeCodeCamp’s JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certification for the first time and recording myself code as…Last updated: 30 Nov 2020
Bookshelf 📚 Draft Post Hackers and PaintersMy notes so far from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas From The Computer Age by Paul Graham. Why Nerds Are Unpopular Hackers And Painters What…Last updated: 08 Oct 2020
Coding My Notes 3 Things I Learned From David Ceddia's Pure React CourseDavid Ceddia’s Pure React course contains self-paced React workshops, the pure react book, and access to previous live events David has…Last updated: 23 Jul 2020
Bookshelf 📚 My Notes Not Caring What People Think Is A SuperpowerMy 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…Last updated: 12 Jul 2020
Coding CodeBookClub: Details, Dates And How To Join A MeetingLink 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…Last updated: 11 Apr 2020
Coding Join our JavaScript book clubAre 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…Last updated: 11 Jan 2020
Personal 2019 In ReviewA 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…Last updated: 01 Jan 2020
Coding 30 Free Resources To Help You Learn JavaScript FundamentalsIf 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…Last updated: 15 Dec 2019
Coding Functions Are FundamentalPhoto by Esther Jiao on Unsplash. These are my notes from Functions Are Fundamental, chapter 3 of Secrets Of The JavaScript Ninja, a…Last updated: 01 Dec 2019
Bookshelf 📚 The Revolt Of The Public By Martin GurriImage 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…Last updated: 11 Sep 2019
Bookshelf 📚 My favorite booksAn ongoing list of books I love and would read again. Slowly adding my biggest takeaways from these books in the sections below. The Worldly…Last updated: 22 Aug 2019
Coding How I went from complete beginner to software developer — and how you can tooTwo 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…Last updated: 19 Mar 2019
Coding How to go from coding tutorials to building your own projectsWhen learning how to code, I kept hearing the same advice. “Tutorials are great, but building projects is the best way to learn. Just go…Last updated: 01 Mar 2019
Coding Notes on a React Tutorial by Kent C. DoddsKent 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…Last updated: 01 Dec 2018
Coding Notes on the Basecs Podcast Episode 2 (What is Encoding?)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…Last updated: 01 Sep 2018
Life Staying In Spain in MarchI’m in Tenerife, Spain with the entire Conversio team. Obligatory working from a hammock photo. Am I digital nomad yet? The whole team…Last updated: 19 Mar 2018
Coding Why is teaching yourself how to code so hard? Here is the uncomfortable truthIt 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…Last updated: 01 Dec 2017
Education Why I’m Glad I Grew Up Playing NeopetsPublished at the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. When people find out I was homeschooled, they sometimes ask, “But did you learn? If I…Last updated: 10 May 2017
Education Irresponsibly CuriousI 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…Last updated: 20 Mar 2017
Life 4 Reasons Why I Love Horseback RidingHorseback riding is the most beautiful form of meditation. When you’re riding a horse, especially if you learn to gallop (a very fast pace…Last updated: 20 Mar 2017
Personal A Few Wonderful Things About My Mom1) 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…Last updated: 17 Mar 2017
Coding Notes on the Basecs Podcast Episode 1 (Bits, Binary, and Bytes)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…Last updated: 01 Jan 2017
Personal Why I Stopped Being Your FriendWhen 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…Last updated: 20 May 2016