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Indeed, and I see plenty of reasons to listen to him. Khan Academy helped me immensely in college for free and Sal Khan has been at it for what, 17 years now?

I'm pretty sure he has a better than average grasp on what it means to learn and how to improve the process. And even more importantly, he's trying to! If not him, then who should we listen to?

I don't have a clue why GP reduces Sal to "good at explaining things" when Khan Academy is so much bigger than just him for a long time now. And I, for one, am very grateful that he exists. People in first world countries can't imagine the impact that free access to great education resources has in the rest of the world, like in my case.

> At the gym, people assume anyone with big muscles must be an expert in medicine. Let's not make the same mistake here.

The gym analogy falls short to me. The mistake here is assuming that someone that worked in education for almost two decades, and has achieved extraordinary results in the mean time, doesn't have any clue about education in general.

Glad to help! Feel free to shoot an email if you want to chat or throw ideas around about this or other issues you may be facing as a new CTO. The address is on my profile.

Can you expand on "still not working for us"?

We had the same problem here. What we implemented is:

1. Have a separate step on the project management board describing "In Review" (QA) and "Deployed" (in production)

2. Interested parties (sales and marketing teams, for instance) should have "Observer" access in the ticketing system and follow relevant issues

Alternatively, you can ditch the Observer access and do the release notes based on what was "Deployed". If learning how to navigate the ticketing system generates friction for your interested parties, this can work better. Not an issue for us as everyone uses the same system to track their tasks.

Thanks, serverlessmom! Knowing that posting this was worthwhile for someone else made my day!

I "discovered" this some a few weeks ago while watching my co-founder sell very well. Afterwards, we were discussing it and I said, "man, you should see my brain when I'm programming, it's kind of amazing!" and then it dawned on me what was happening. A mixture of a visual language, with elements from both English and Brazilian Portuguese, and the abstract CS concepts.

When he sells, I'm sure he has his own internal language to do it. He doesn't think about objections, how to answer a specific question, etc. anymore. He just does it. It's kind of fascinating, and the universe is fascinating too. Learning every day!

I'm the one who has to thank you for sharing -- good luck too!

Haha! No wonder I have so many issues with:

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Thanks for the link, jjgreen. Very interesting, and certainly tricky.

Cool points, coolgeek and ogwh. Totally agree on paying attention to detail. I think that we go too far from understanding the fundamentals, and that cripples us.

Being there is the first step. If you aren't "there", paying attention, everything is way, way harder.

If you don't focus on what your tongue, mouth and the air is doing, how are you going to learn to pronounce better? We just try a bunch of things and see what sticks -- not very efficient.

Thanks for the comments, they made me reflect a lot.

Thanks, devKnight! I'll take a look at the book.

I totally agree about (1), and glad to know your experience with shadowing was helpful. How did you do it?

Clubhouse.

Very happy with it so far. It's free up to 10 users.

No, Quiver doesn't use Electron and is Mac only. Inkdrop is cross-platform.