yjhoney
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
Traveling objectively made me worse off than if I had not done it.
It seems like traveling and adventuring has been glamorized by the media and people around me a bit much and I caught the bug.
Looking back, I would have preferred to spend more time at local gardens, participated more in neighborhood events, helped out local community more and got to know my neighbors better. These activities to build a deeper emotional connection with people around me would have helped my mental health tremendously back then.
I'm not saying I regret traveling, I'm saying that the main reason why I took time to explore the world primarily because of the glamor of it and me trying to chase the next crazy adventure, all the while contributing to global warming in my wake. Traveling is not for everyone and I hope fewer people give out a blanket `travel the world` prescription and more people are willing to admit that maybe traveling didn't do shit for their growth.
"For the students that complete the whole curriculum, could they contribute to a codebase that users use and follow good coding practices like an engineer would?"
The answer is yes, so now we have a happy path. Next phase is to increase this funnel.
https://www.notion.so/songz/26617ff591e44d4f9c376950e7449819...
Its been a year and he went through a few notebooks of practice problems back to back. He now catches bugs in my book and proofreads my lesson exercises. He can understand my code and give me feedback. His perseverance and dedication to my content is the greatest gift I can ever receive from anyone.
The students needed a project to show on their resume so I got together with them to have weekly sprints like a mock engineering team. I taught them good coding practice and slowly built up an engineering team of student engineers during my free time. It helped me rediscover engineering practices and finding open source tools that mirror what I use at work is really eye opening and made me a stronger engineer at work. I understand things with a greater depth.
I don't contribute any code, I just code review, do product planning, and conduct weekly sprints. We try to document a quick summary here: https://github.com/garageScript/c0d3-app/wiki/Sprint-H1-2020
Honestly a little surprised that Airpods would be so successful.