The 5AM Myth: My Productivity Didn’t Start Until I Stopped Following the Rules
We’re told that waking up early is the secret to success. I followed that rule—and it didn’t work very well for me. Here’s the real story of how I finished a...
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What is the price of achieving expertise in any field? 10000 hours.
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From Self-Taught to Google: How John Washam’s GitHub Repo Became a Global CS Study Resource
John Washam, an Army veteran and self-taught programmer, studied 12 hours a day to land a job at Google. Along the way, he created a GitHub repository that b...