One of the students brought a King Cake! He had to explain the dangers of letting Baby Jesus into your stomach

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/ Powerful model. It’s messaged pretty heavily at DevBootcamp to help students about to process tons of information stay afloat.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/cnnmoney/2014/11/14/ivory-coding.cnnmoney.html I was so busy having my first day at our NYC campus that I forgot to share this!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/12/20/370954988/twelve-weeks-to-a-six-figure-job It’s interesting to work for one!

We use this internal company governance system at DBC. While some friends called it (if I recall?) the “feelings circle treehouse model” of governance, I thought I’d share this article with you all that describes how it’s working at Medium. http://firstround.com/article/how-medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers

I’ve been doing the boot camp education thing for a while, and it seems that people are having good lives after. This seemed to confirm it. https://www.themuse.com/advice/i-went-to-a-coding-bootcampand-heres-what-happened-next

First time ever to Chicago. Views; and all that jazz.

I thought it would be worth recording that for the first time since 2000 I’m taking some time off from working — well, not working for a paycheck, anyway. I’m taking some time to deplete my life’s savings at the half-way point of my life. I’m put to recall Dante: Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. – Canto I, “Inferno” Over the last few years I have had a whole host of technical projects, books, movies, and home projects mount up. On top of that I’ve also had a wedding to plan and have just concluded a home redecoration project.

Farewell to my friends winding down DevBootcamp today.