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In this essay / tutorial / tell-all, which i hope will be the best post ever written on learning to program, i’ll give you the kick in the ass to make your own informed decision:īefore endeavoring on this guide i read many others like it.įrom “ how i learned Angular in 3 months” to “ i used to be homeless, now i’m a full-stack developer,” and my personal favorite: “ how i CURED CANCER by learning HTML.“ It’s not easy to bucket the world’s population into 2 groups, especially since there are now 59 genders, but the technical vs non-technical war rages on unchallenged. I hope this post communicates the same encouragement, without the negative reinforcement.

In fact, it was my then co-founder who screamed at me “Ryan, you don’t know s*** about technology!” that motivated me to prove him wrong. Nobody said “you can do it Ryan” or “those developers aren’t smarter than you.” Weeknights i could have spent learning were spent on Seinfeld re-runs. weekends i could have spent learning were spent swiping on Tinder. I was prepared to be That Guy developers fear meeting at cocktail events, who corners them in bathrooms with “let me tell you my idea…”

i could never catch up to their skill level if i start in my twentiesĪfter rehearsing these lines a few times, i was ready to spend the rest of my career as a “non-technical,” a throwaway seat at tech conferences.

i don’t “think” the way programmers think.

i’m not logical enough to be good at it, even if i learned.

Today i chuckle, but back then it’s what i believed, so it was true.Ī few other things i knew were certain in January 2013: When my first job flew me to Madrid to meet our developers, i remember staring at my Spaniard colleagues’ Matrix terminals, thinking: “wow, i could never do that.”

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This comfort zone - that i could “talk to chicks” - suppressed my anxiety of not knowing how to talk to computers. it was easy to ask them out, and it was easy to make them comfortable enough to _. I found it easy to make girls (strangers) laugh. Their computer screens looked like The Matrix… cryptic characters, black background, and bright colors for arbitrary words like function() and end.įeeling inferior as “just a marketer” i assured myself: at least you can date hot chicks! It was at my first job, which began January 7, 2013, where i saw developers doing their thing: coding. So after many requests, i’m sharing the highest leverage decision i’ve made to achieve this lifestyle: learning to code.

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Yet nowadays i run a multi-million dollar portfolio of companies, lead software teams, teach and speak at events, travel the world, blah blah blah.

I grew up outside Atlanta, attended public schools, scored bad grades, was rejected by a state university, accepted after writing a plea letter, and my first full-time job after college paid a whopping $43,000… in New York City.įor all intents and purposes i grew up “average” and assumed i would remain “average” with a few vacations and nice restaurant meals before i stopped breathing and had an “average” funeral. In case we haven’t met: i’m a marketer, musician, and developer in New York City.

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Update – 2.5 years after publishing this post, i’m proud to release my own “how to code” course, Founder/Hacker.