Future of Coding

Episode 16 - Research Recap Eight: Life & Work Planning

Excited to be back

Just finally am at the end of a two-week cold. I hope my voice holds out for this whole episode…

Moved from /journal to /log

Yes I know that this is a downgrade in the short term, but I hope it will help me better organize my thoughts in the long-term. Also in the medium-term I will make the /log page better-looking.

Spent a few days on my Life Plan

stevekrouse.com/life-plan

Established my priorities

Work is #8.

Got clearer about my life mission

Enable thinking. Simliar to Doug Engelbart’s augmenting humans.

Dropped the word “master”

There are some negative connotations with the word.

My Future of Coding Plan

Three versions so far

I think it’s important to both show you my work, but also have a clean and readable final draft. Doing both is a little tricky…

  1. /about was a good summary of the past two years, justifying my current path

  2. /plan v1. Written at 10pm after inspired by Chris Granger’s Strange Loop talk. Very open, questioning. The most important part was the user/customer table.

  3. /plan v2 is still just a (five page!!) outline at this point. Hope to develop it by the end of this week, maybe next week.

Articulating the goal

Programming language as powerful as JavaScript but as easy to use as Facebook. Needs to answer the question: how do I know when I’m done?

Strategy: writer & podcaster

I showed my user/customer list to Dan Shipper. He immediately said, #5 seems like the right one. The more I thought about it, the more right it felt. I started telling people about it and got some great feedback:

Inspire others

This works as long as I don’t care about control or money, which works because I have all the privledge.

Elon Hyperloop

Bret Victor Learnable Programming

Emailed him the day after reading.

The Coding Space.

WoofJS.

Next Steps

1. Finish writing Future of Coding Plan

Should take another week or two.

2. Make is sustainable

Talk to foundations, think tanks, companies, and/or start a Patreon. Please hit me up if you have ideas.

3. Put “a bow” on The Coding Space and WoofJS

A series of essays which will also be talks:

  1. “So you have an app idea”
  2. “So you want to learn how to code”
  3. “So you want someone else to learn to code”
  4. “So you want to make tech more inclusive”

4. Follow Future of Coding Plan

Other things

New ergonomic(?) iPad setup

Slack group invite on homepage