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Patrick McKenzie
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Lambda School is one of the best engines for distributing opportunity on the Internet, which is maybe one of the best meta-engines for distributing opportunity.
I am in dumbstruck awe of this company.
(In no small part because they do the hardest part of Starfighter, the part that I was utterly unsuccessful in doing, with the difficulty setting tweaked to hard mode... as an implementation detail like 5th down the list of worthy hard problems. And make it look easy.)
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Patrick McKenzie
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Inspired by Game of Thrones:

It was an accident of our delivery mechanisms that we once had numbered releases and made A Big Deal when the new release dropped, and we went to continuous delivery for great reasons when that was available.

But maybe the Big Deal helped anyhow?
Like, television schedules look like television schedules because of the production constraints of the medium and the monetization engine behind it. The show already exists but it will be unspooled for maximizing the GTM impact of it.
I wonder if we can bring back episodic marketing to software? Something that someone would willingly write a blog post speculating about what's coming up in the next episode or parsing tea leaves from the official trailers?
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Patrick McKenzie
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the folks at crypto exchanges trying to conduct market stabilization warrooms right now.
"We could make a lot of money."
"You can make a lot of money by burning down a casino for the insurance IF YOU ARE STUPID."
I think this is why, when every sophisticated person in space became aware that tether was doomed back in late 2018, several firms rushed stablecoins to markets.

They're a terrible product for the issuer, but given that the system was hooked on them, great for the ecosystem.
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Patrick McKenzie
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It's really singular that the Carreyrou of Bitfinex/Tether was an anonymous blogger (@Bitfinexed).

He had the outlines of this story before anyone, got many of the consequential details right, and did some really important archival research on previous actions of conspirators.
@Bitfinexed Kind of frustrating to me that of all the financial journalists in the world nobody said "Oh a multi-billion dollar fraud attached to one of our hottest news stories this year, maybe I should get on that beat consistently."
@Bitfinexed Credit where credit is due:

caribbeanbusiness.com/puerto-rico-to…

blog.bitmex.com/tether/

These folks listened to people who knew facts then found unambiguous government data substantiating them.
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Austen Allred
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A lot of talk about Lambda School today, and most of it I'll ignore.

One I'm going to respond to - that Lambda School is "creaming" - removing the best students from other schools and locking them into ISAs.

This is a tweetstorm full of student stories, so buckle up.
J is a single father, high school dropout with two kids (1.6 GPA), had been working in a warehouse for four years. We noticed in our intro courses he was doing well at programming, and decided to invest.

He attended Lambda, now makes software for warehouses, making $80k+/yr
S had to drop out of school when she couldn't afford the payments on her archaeology degree. She was living in a car when she applied to Lambda School.

She was also hired at an $80k rate.
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Keerthana.
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Best performances 2018 (Telugu): A Thread. Chronological.
Anushka—#Bhaagamathie.

Chanchala needed a performance that depicts strength while still leaving space for vulnerability, and Anushka gave it her best. Not to forget the formidable titular character.
Nithya Menon—#Awe.

A character that comes and goes, but stays with you throughout the film. The attitude. The boldness. The empathy. Don’t know how Nitya pulled it off with such ease considering the utter lack of reference points. 🙏🏽
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Austen Allred
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One of my favorite moments from this Lambda School retreat this past week was when someone asked @calebhicks if there’s anything else we want to do with regard to instructional design/product.

Caleb’s response? “We’re almost to Lambda 1.0. Then we can start to really innovate.”
In a very real way much of Lambda School’s early success has come from giving brilliant educators the chance to build things as they should be from the ground up.

There are so many brilliant and talented people who love teaching, but very few orgs will give them reigns 100%.
It sure makes it easy when the financial analysis basically boils down to, “Will it make the students better? Then do it.”

Hard to overstate how important that is.
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Austen Allred
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One thing that’s become abundantly clear to me in running Lambda School is the enormous advantage of having a built-in network from family.

The students I’m most proud to see hired are those that learned to bootstrap their own network or (increasingly) those that use Lambda’s.
That’s one of the reason over the next 12-18 months we’ll be investing millions in growing the Lambda School network, at times by sales and brute force.

If we have it already built out students who don’t come with the same advantages can just plug in and show what they can do.
A lot of schools end up with an alumni network. I’m not aware of any school as incentivized as we are to grow it as big or as deep or as fast.

Stay tuned.
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Austen Allred
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Funding secured.

Lambda School raised a $14 million Series A led by GV. Stripe, Bow Capital, and some other great angels invested.

lambdaschool.com/blog/lambda-sc…
We’re using the funds to do two main things:

1. Continue expanding. Lambda School didn’t exist 18 months ago and we’re already one of the largest code schools in the world.

2. Build out a robust hiring network and platform.
We win when Lambda School students are hired.

In the next six months in addition to building out an incredible career services arm and curriculum, we’ll be hiring a full team whose responsibility it will be to make sure hiring managers everywhere are hiring Lambda grads.
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Since we are now discussing #RhodeIsland, #eliteprepschools, #religion, #abuseallegations and #highschoolbehaviors, seems #StGeorges, provides a telling example of the culture often prevalent among some prominent prep schools. vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/s…
2/ #StGeorge’s, an elite boarding school in #RhodeIsland, has been engulfed by a scandal over alleged sexual abuse spanning decades, with at least 40 alleged victims and a dozen alleged staff and student perpetrators.
3/ “Across the archipelago of #prepschools clustered mainly in the northeastern US, a truth-and-reconciliation process is fitfully unfolding as school after school sends letters to alumni acknowledging past abuse and asking if they, too, were abused.”
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