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Teaching Myself How To Be Catholic

·Oct 2, 2018

Teaching Myself How To Be Catholic

I recently had a conversation with my friend Gary about the joy of teaching. We discussed that, at least for the two of us, one of our favorite ways to learn is to put ourselves in situations where we’re charged with teaching others. In many cases, I’d argue that teaching…

Christianity

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Teaching Myself How To Be Catholic
Teaching Myself How To Be Catholic
Christianity

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Jul 6, 2017

Decisions Are Expensive

I don’t like making decisions. It takes a lot of time and energy, and produces lots of stress for me. Yet, making decisions is a necessary part of life. I’ve found decision-making to be increasingly important as I grow older and my decisions affect not just me, but also my…

Productivity

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Decisions Are Expensive
Decisions Are Expensive
Productivity

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Mar 21, 2017

How do I fund my idea?

I frequently get this question from aspiring entrepreneurs. I think it is an innocent question, but one which is misguided. Here’s the bubble burster: ideas on their own have little to no value. So while you may be able to find a donation, you do not yet have something which…

Startup

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How do I fund my idea?
How do I fund my idea?
Startup

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Feb 6, 2015

My Morning Routine

I start each day nearly the same way. I’ve come into this routine over the course of the past decade, and pieces have come and gone. …

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Feb 1, 2015

Paint A Lot

The greats weren’t great because at birth they could paint. The greats were great cause they paint a lot The lyrics in Macklemore’s song 10,000 Hours promote quantity of practice over intrinsic ability. I feel the same about learning to code. While many great programmers got started at a young…

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Oct 29, 2014

Communicating with Code

While the Learn To Code movement has certainly picked up steam in the past year, I think it’s interesting to realize that “code” is not something new. What’s new is that we have a strong incentive to learn a particular type of code: billions of people now have Internet-connected computing…

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Communicating with Code
Communicating with Code

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Aug 29, 2014

One Small Step For Man

Why incremental progress takes us further than giant leaps I used to think that significant things in life were done in large chunks as sheer acts of will. Study cram sessions, Spring Cleaning, hackathons. But a single step doesn’t finish the marathon, nor does a single battle win the war…

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One Small Step For Man
One Small Step For Man

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Aug 15, 2014

Starting With The End In Mind

Step 1: more programmers. Step 2: more software. What’s Step 3? I’m on a mission to help more people acquire software development skills. This has become a popular thing lately. It’s important for Kentucky, and important for America. Overnight (ie over the past 50 years), software has proliferated most aspects…

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Aug 11, 2014

6 Life Lessons From Minecraft

A few weeks ago, I actually played Minecraft for the first time. I had watched friends play the game a few years ago, before it was an iconic franchise and merchandising machine, but had never dug in myself. As I was preparing to teach the Week of Code summer camp…

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6 Life Lessons From Minecraft
6 Life Lessons From Minecraft

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Jul 7, 2014

My list of Flow-inducing activities

Toward an understanding of why hard work brings enjoyment — I’m currently reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’ s book Flow, and wanted to reflect on a few of the activities that provide me with an experience of flow. If you have not read the book nor otherwise become familiar with flow, the concept is that an experience of enjoyment comes from being…

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Nick Such

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Engineer & Entrepreneur. Co-founder of @Awesome_Inc Helping people #learntocode

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