College students have too much time on their hands

so i came across a blog about Hacker School. In the blog, the founder of Hacker School talks about why it was created. If you haven’t heard of Hacker School, basically it’s a free program in NYC where you hack for 3 months. No formal training or costs, just a room full of people trying to become better programmers.

When I heard of it, I was jealous. First of all because I’m not in the city, but also because it was such a brilliant idea, I’m mad I didn’t think of it myself. The founders realized there weren’t enough good programmers out there so they created a space to get people better at programming. So simple yet so perfect.

Sometimes we work so hard trying to think of elaborate ways to change something and the answer is right in front of you.

If you want change, make change.

Just thought I’d share my thoughts.

incmagazine:

You have more important things to focus on than, um, focusing. Get back on track with these tips.

1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks.
2. Stop multi-tasking.
3. Be militant about eliminating distractions.
4. Schedule your email.
5. Use the phone.
6. Work on your own agenda.
7. Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals.

Read full article

so I just started using codecademy.com. this year it seems a lot of startups are trying to provide online tutorials to get more people into coding. so far, not so bad. the first thing i noticed is that at the end of each lesson they ask you to do something but dont tell you how. i think this is key to ensure that you are actually learning something. tryruby.orgnever quite figured that out. i’ll update this as i have more thoughts. keep coding, danie

This is a video I created to submit to highvisibilityproject.org. Thought
I’d share it with you guys.

so I was washing dishes the other day and was thinking about fundraising. i
was speaking to a friend the other day and he mentioned that philantropists
like bill gates give money for the tax benefits and positive press. the
return is often greater than the contribution. it got me thinking that most
rappers have non-profits they associate with. why don’t we reach out to new
artists and interest them in giving back to their community. instead of
free turkeys or secret santas, how about giving to a local startup? i know
they’re going on my fundraising list this holiday. maybe you should do the
same. i plan to contact anyone that’s every mentioned giving back to the
community. i want that big tymers money for christmas.

So now that I’m setting up meetings with local business and non-profit
owners, I want to make sure I stay organized. I wish this were easier. I
could just save everyone’s contact information in my phone, but how will I
remember the last time I spoke with them, or what our last meeting was
about? I asked around twitter but haven’t heard anything back yet. Any
ideas followers?