This Week at Udacity, April 13 edition
Kim Scott & Sebastian Thrun engage in Radical Candor, a deep dive into Natural Language Processing, Career Zen, and more!
One of the most exciting things to happen this week literally just happened! It was a new episode of Udacity Talks, with Sebastian Thrun as host, and featuring Kim Scott as special guest. Kim is the author of an incredible book entitled Radical Candor:
Her conversation with Sebastian, and the questions she answers from viewers, make for a tremendously insightful episode, and you can watch it right here!
People tuned in from all over the world for this wonderful episode—Algeria, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, and more! If for no other reason than this, you HAVE to check in just to hear Kim deliver her reprimands of Sebastian’s lateness to the interview (true story!) in the styles of “Ruinous Empathy,” Manipulative Insincerity,” “Obnoxious Aggression,” and “Radical Candor.” Here’s “Ruinous Empathy”:
“Sebastian, I love you, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that you’re late. It’s so awesome to be in your presence, that I’ll take whatever I can get.”
(Sebastian, of course, thought that was simply “Radical Candor!”)
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In other news, Luis Serrano, Curriculum Lead for the Artificial Intelligence Team at Udacity, took readers on a fascinating deep dive into what students of the new Natural Language Processing Nanodegree program can expect from the groundbreaking curriculum:
While over in Careers country, we got our Zen on!
And now, it’s time for everyone’s favorite part of the week!
The Tweet of the Week!
How great is this?
“I’m really proud of overcoming the challenge of learning something new. Being surround by some many talented people encouraged me to become a better professional, and to seek challenges without fear.”
And THAT … is this week at Udacity!
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This post was written by Christopher Watkins, Senior Writer and Chief Words Officer, Udacity
