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Co-founder & CTO of LearnUp. On a mission to solve the skills gap problem.

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flexport.engineering 6y ago

What It’s Like to Work as an Infra Engineer at Flexport

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blog.navapbc.com 8y ago

A Manager’s Guide for Effectively Giving Feedback

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www.technologyreview.com 9y ago

WannaCry Has a More Lucrative Cousin That Mines Cryptocurrency

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www.technologyreview.com 9y ago

Flavor Networks Reveal Universal Principle Behind Successful Recipes

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hbr.org 9y ago

When Roads Are Closed for Marathons, More Elderly People Die of Heart Attacks

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power.weaponsofreason.com 9y ago

Global Political Power Map – Understanding Some of the World's Power Structures

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hbr.org 9y ago

How Pharma Game the System to Keep Drugs Expensive When Patent Expired

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www.fastcodesign.com 9y ago

How Uber Uses Dark Patterns to Game Its Drivers

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hbr.org 9y ago

How morale changes as a startup grows

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www.technologyreview.com 9y ago

Customer Service Chatbots Are About to Become Frighteningly Realistic

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www.circulardesignguide.com 9y ago

The Circular Design Guide

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arstechnica.com 9y ago

Red-light camera grace period goes from 0.1 to 0.3 seconds, Chicago to lose $17M

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www.propublica.org 9y ago

H&R Block and Intuit Are Lobbying Against Making Tax Filling Free and Easy

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medium.com 9y ago

Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI?

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github.com 9y ago

Command line client for Stack Overflow – search and browse in your terminal

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medium.com 9y ago

A Career Retrospective–10 years working in tech

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robgo.org 9y ago

What We Talk About When We Talk About Companies – Rob Go

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letter, Annotated by Bloomberg

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www.wired.com 9y ago

How Lego Built a Social Network for Kids That’s Not Creepy

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motherboard.vice.com 9y ago

What It’s Like to Be in the Running to Be an Astronaut

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www.nea.com 10y ago

Learnup: using technology to solve the skills gap

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Startup partners with Old Navy to provide free online job skills training

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www.fastcoexist.com 11y ago

Startup Provides Job Training Before You Get Your First Job

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medium.com 12y ago

Do You Know What Your Kids Think of Your Work Addiction?

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danariely.com 13y ago

Thoughts on Lance Armstrong [video]

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alexbain.github.com 13y ago

Great RaspberryPi Quick Start Guide

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www.entrepreneur.com 13y ago

Online Training Platform Gives Job Seekers a Boost

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robgo.org 13y ago

The Best Stuff on the Internet This Year - Rob Go

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robgo.org 13y ago

Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later

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venturebeat.com 13y ago

The answer is not more leisure time, but more time to learn and to be creative

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So much BS in this article but let's start with these 3: 1) "Products based on disruptive technologies are typically cheaper, simpler, smaller, and more convenient to use." How many more benefits can he put in that sentence? He's basically saying disruptive tech is typically cheaper or better. 2) "Make something the mainstream market doesn’t want now, but will want later." Trying to predict the future is just betting on luck. 3) That random functionality vs time graph. What is 200 Functionality?

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San Francisco, CA

LearnUp is seeking Founding Engineers.

We are solving America’s skills gap by allowing job seekers to learn job skills online directly from employers. We are a small team, well-funded, and addressing a real problem. We’ve already established partnerships with leading employers such as Staples, GAP, Whole Foods, and Safeway, and the California Community Colleges have committed to roll out LearnUp to nearly 3 million students.

We are looking for full-stack Ruby on Rails engineers to join our Founding Engineering team. This is a key technical position with a huge impact on technical and product direction. The best fit would be someone with a strong understanding of web technologies who is entrepreneurial and enjoys shipping and learning on a daily basis.

Our current technologies include Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Javascript, SASS, HAML, and AWS.

We offer competitive salary and sizable equity stake.

You can email me personally at kenny@learnup.me

More info about LearnUp at http://learnup.me/about

More info about the job at http://learnup.me/jobs

Friedman: New Rules 14 years ago

Cannot agree more with Tom Friedman and Van Ton-Quinlivan on this subject. Job skills are changing so fast that the only way to stay relevant is to be a continuous learner. I want to add that people need help figuring what to learn. This is why LearnUp.me (I work there) is working with California Community Colleges to help those that are "ready soon" and "far from ready" figure out what they need to learn for open jobs.

I had the same problems with the subject field and send button but it didn't take long for me to figure out the solution. Oddly, it seems very intuitive once I've figured it out.

Kudos to the Outlook design team for the clean UI that doesn't take long to get used to and is intuitive once you are used to it.

Good point about spending $4 at a small business instead. That will help keep existing businesses alive but it will not solve the capital problem to start a small business.

What I really like about Roy's post is that he understands that programming is a way of thinking and he acknowledges that it's different than what he's used to. Programming teaches me how to think about abstract problems and to come up with solutions, and a series of steps to implement the solutions. The coding part is mostly boring and mindless typing if you have done the first part well.

I would rather work for a manager that understands this way of thinking over one that doesn't any day.

Being in Temecula doesn't help much since there's hardly any tech companies out there. You are closed enough to LA that it's worth making a drive once a week to go to a tech meetup or work out of CoLoft to expand your network. Surround yourself with other smart people in the industry. The worse thing that can happen is that you learn something.