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Austen Allred

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7 Dec

Alright, decision made.

I’m turning my writings on “career hacking” into an official book (title TBD). That’s the best format.

In the meantime I’m looking for a few people to preorder + give feedback as I keep writing. (Will also pay for editor).

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@bloomtech

Literally decided on this like an hour ago as a forcing function for getting it all down for @bloomtech students.

@bloomtech students - do not buy this. Will get to you another way.

I set price intentionally obnoxiously high ($50). I know if I set at $5-10 I would get a whole lot of people who don’t need the info and don’t actually care about the contents. Don’t need those yet :)

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Austen Allred

@Austen

21 Nov

The problem of cancel culture isn’t that people lose their jobs if they say something that crosses a line.

It’s that people become unwilling to say innocuous and reasonable things for fear of that happening.

That chilling effect eliminates entire topics of conversation.

I do think the power that Twitter mobs have is overstated 99% of the time.

But if that 1% of the time your life is flipped upside down and you no longer have a career, the downside risk of tweeting something controversial outweighs the upside by… a lot.

I’ve intentionally structured things in my life so that I know I’ll be fine no matter what Twitter mobs may try to do, and there’s a meaningful psychological shift when you’re not living in fear of potential mobs anymore.

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Austen Allred

@Austen

16 Nov

It’s time.

Lambda School, which pioneered career-focused education that aligns incentives of students with the school, is now:

Bloom Institute of Technology

New name, same commitment to lower-risk education that leads to rewarding jobs.

And now what we’ve been working on:

Introducing the Outcomes-Based Loan:

$0 upfront, no payments in school (or during job search).

Follow job search guidelines and don’t get a job paying $50k+ in a year?

We NOT ONLY refund 100% of tuition, but PAY YOU another 10% of tuition directly.

(bloomtech.com/tuition/tuitio…)

(And by the way, even once you land that great job, payments are low: $500-600/month.)

Details: bloomtech.com/tuition/outcom…

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Austen Allred

@Austen

18 Sep

Trying to watch football with neighbors to be friendly.

This game is 90% breaks. This does not work for my brain.

I grew up playing soccer and I totally get how people could be bored watching the tactical part of that game, but this is literally 50/50 game/commercial breaks

This is just an excuse to turn your brain off and drink beer isn’t it

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Austen Allred

@Austen

23 Aug

People often use Lambda School as a poster child for using nocode tools; we used (and use) a lot, which lets everyone (including nontechnical ppl) ship very quickly. Great!

BUT

If nocode changes affect your data model, you’re creating outrageous amounts of technical debt.

For example, if someone can notice data they’re missing and are able to quickly add columns to a base, that’s awesome. But without understanding the technical implications of doing so everything can break.

There’s not really a safeguard against that.

“But you can just move over what you’re doing to a normal database whenever you want.” Well, kind of. As long as

1. You can freeze all of the data while you migrate (unlikely)

And

2. The data model still makes sense (unlikely)

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Austen Allred

@Austen

18 Aug

🚨🚨🚨

Have been waiting to be able to publicly talk about this for a while now:

Lambda School is developing a blockchain course to turn all you engineers and developers into crypto engineers in the hours after work.

Sign up to learn more: lambdaschool.com/learn-blockcha…

For those looking to help develop curriculum, teach, hire from, or sponsor scholarships for the course, email blockchain@lambdaschool.com

I’m really, really excited to bring Lambda School’s world class instructional design, curriculum development, and experiential learning expertise to the crypto space.

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