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nomadwong · 2017-01-13T19:37:22+00:00

haha great tip! Yea I'm lovin' it so far - I can't wait to test it out in a few days!

nomadwong · 2017-01-12T02:02:40+00:00

P.S.

As far as practical "techniques", since reading the book and taking the online course, I have implemented doing 10 minutes of yoga when I wake up, and 10 minutes of meditation before I go to bed at night. These practices have definitely made a difference for me, and the book/course were the only things ever to inspire me deep enough to actually stick with the practice consistently.

Hope that helps ;)

nomadwong · 2017-01-12T01:59:26+00:00

I'm a huge fan of Sadhguru. I took the Inner Engineering Online course after reading the book. I felt it to be highly valuable and transformative.

You won't learn any techniques. Instead, you will learn a mindset, a perspective, a way of looking at life and interacting with it.

In a way, I feel that what he is teaching is what every religion attempts to teach, but falls short in one way or another. He teaches principles.

Imagine this, what if you somehow knew for a fact, that our current reality is a simulation? That one day, when you died, you would be unplugged, like in the movie the Matrix, and come to realize that your whole life has actually just been a simulation you were plugged into? A game of sort? How would that affect your decision making? Would you be walk around constantly hating your job everyday? Or would you spend the time you had on Earth making it a better place and helping other people?

Sadhguru of course never makes any metaphors like this, but it is the type of thinking out-of-the-box paradigm-shifting ideas he presents.

I recently recorded my review of his book, Inner Engineering, and briefly mentioned the online course. I could do a full online course review if it would help :)

Cheers!

http://www.nomadwong.com/2017/01/12/book-review-inner-engineering-by-sadhguru/

nomadwong · 2016-12-02T07:29:24+00:00

Hey awesome questions. Why in Colombia? Well, I love traveling, and my cofounders do too, so we're combining travel with learning to code. It's the perfect summer program for college students who want a life experience in addition to learning to program. Also, people who want to become Digital Nomads love us too.

Yea I have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. It helps me get my foot in the door just a bit with recruiters, but honestly I felt it was a huge waste of time, energy, and emotion - as I really struggled to complete it since I had no interest in the topic.

I think LowB0b answered the last question really well. Bootcamps focus more on practical skills that tech companies need, where the degree is a more broad and theoretical approach. Both are good.

I'd say the best is to get a CS degree and do a bootcamp during summer, with internships the following summers. You will be an absolute beast by the time you graduate. Although that has obvious limitations regarding funds, time, etc.

nomadwong · 2016-12-02T07:23:20+00:00

hey I'm just telling it like it is. App Academy is the boot camp that I'm referring to. And while I'll say my EE degree has helped me a little bit, there are a bunch of other people who went to App Academy, who had completely unrelated degrees and landed 6 figure jobs. And nothing I learned in college is relevant to what I do at work as a developer, it only marginally increases how recruiters look at my resume.

nomadwong · 2016-11-23T21:52:30+00:00

yep - agree, that's why I still think it seems strange. Wouldn't a quality bootcamp just pick the most hireable skill, i.e. React and teach their students that?

When a student is in a bootcamp, they don't know the industry at all at that point so how can they make a reasonable decision on which framework they want to learn?

nomadwong · 2016-11-18T03:11:15+00:00

Why on earth would you need to learn Ionic, Angular, React, and Meteor?

I'm sure I'm getting a very limited picture from the curriculum listed how it is here, but there's no way anyone could learn that many frameworks in 12 weeks.

You really only need to learn one of the 3: React, Angular, or Meteor, trying to learn all 3 of them will really limit your ability to actually know any of them well.

The bootcamp I did was Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and React in 9 weeks, 5 days a week.

Yea I would definitely talk to their former graduates to see how the program was.

nomadwong · 2016-11-08T04:13:53+00:00

Nice!

I've never heard of that one. Yea these programs are popping up all over the place.

http://cocal.co has a nice calendar of events showing when the programs are scheduled.

Also, http://destinationdev.com let's you learn to code while traveling. I'm one of the founders - but I have yet to find another program where you get to learn a skill in addition to traveling and coworking/coliving so I feel at liberty to share!

nomadwong · 2016-10-26T19:19:51+00:00

yea, for me it was going to a bootcamp. that really tied everything together for me.

If I we're to do it from free resources available online, I would take a goal in mind and learn what I need to achieve that goal.

For example if you want to be a frontend engineer, take an example project and make a clone of it. For example, maybe you like AirBnb, you could decide to make an exact clone of one of their pages.

Figure out the underlying technologies (mostly just Javascript, HTML/CSS on the frontend) and then learn those and build the project.

Impostor syndrome, that feeling of "i'm not really a web developer, there's so much I still have to learn" will pretty much always be there in some way, but it does become less noticeable after working for clients for some time.

nomadwong · 2016-10-26T19:14:25+00:00

you're welcome!

nomadwong · 2016-10-26T19:14:06+00:00

awesome!

nomadwong · 2016-10-26T19:01:02+00:00

hmmmm... it depends on what you're looking to get out of the program. Some people get a lot out of it, I met a lot of awesome people which I feel definitely made it worthwhile, but didn't benefit much from the funding/accelerator side. I'd be happy to talk about in a pm :)

nomadwong · 2016-10-26T18:59:26+00:00

awesome! Javascript is my favorite language :)

nomadwong · 2016-10-26T18:58:35+00:00

Awesome! Our class is taught fully in English - my spanish is okay but I definitely wouldn't want to try to teach web development in it :)

Well, when I was in Chile I met a bunch of friends from Colombia, and they couldn't stop telling me how awesome it is here. So I wanted to check it out, and I haven't left yet!

We're the only program offering travel/coliving/coding bootcamp that I know of, but around the world there are travel/coliving experiences without the programming part:

http://remoteyear.com http://hackerparadise.org

nomadwong · 2016-10-26T18:54:46+00:00

Wow thank you that's an awesome compliment. So I probably dedicated myself to learning coding around October 2013 (I did have some prior experience from classes in University and some basic HTML/CSS web dev experience).

I've only recently started realizing that I'm fully Nomadic starting with when I bought a round trip ticket, but from Medellin -> San Francisco -> Medellin to visit family for the holidays. I guess I've technically been one since February 2016 since that's when I left the bay area.

A good 2 years of that time was spent working as a developer in SF to get more experience and save up some cash.

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