Or how to improve your public speaking. Standup comedy is the hardest type of public speaking. I’ve given speeches, I’ve taught small sections, presented to small groups, done formal and informal presentations, lectured hundreds of people, given presentations to schools, teachers, administrators, done product pitches to large and small groups of investors, done … Continue reading Everything is Easy After Standup Comedy
Let’s say you are like a lot of people I know who are interested in doing a startup—but you’re waiting for the stars to align just perfectly for you to jump into this endeavor. I’ll cut to the chase—don’t wait for the opportunity to be just right. Commit first, and you give yourself the ability … Continue reading Commitment Leads to Opportunity
Michael Brandt joined me for 10 days on the road trip from New Orleans to DC, and made this film about our trip and computer science education around the country. It’s great! Continue reading Around the Country with CodeHS
In this video, I juggle for 10 seconds in front of many of the major landmarks around the United States. It’s a lot of fun! Continue reading Juggling Around the United States
Today is the last day of the trip. We got an early start and did a workshop at the Met Sacramento High School. We had a number of students, and it was also their last day of school. The feedback was really positive. Zach and Joshua joined me as well to help with the workshop. … Continue reading Day 67: Sacramento, CA –> San Francisco, CA
Today is the last night of the trip. We started in in Medford and drove to Sacramento. It was about a five hour-ish drive. We listened to a bit of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and some music as well. We arrived and worked in a starbucks for a bit before heading to a friend’s … Continue reading Day 66: Medford, OR –> Sacramento, CA
We started in Portland and had two school visits today. The first was at the Catedral School where we ran a workshop with about fifty seventh and eighth graders. Then we headed to the Oregon City Service Learning Academy to meet with some teachers who may use CodeHS next year. After that we drove to … Continue reading Day 65: Portland, OR –> Medford, OR
This was a longer drive than we thought, about seven hours. We took 84W all of the way. The landscape varies a lot as you drive through Oregon. Right when you cross the border it looks a lot like Idaho, but then you see the trees, and drive along the Columbia River and see Mount … Continue reading Day 64: Boise, ID –> Portland, OR
We drove from Idaho Falls to Boise today. The route was mostly 84 west, and this was maybe one of the emptiest stretches of road on the whole trip. And that says a lot. This was really middle of nowhere land. When we got to Boise, we worked in a Starbucks for a while. We … Continue reading Day 63: Idaho Falls, ID –> Boise, ID
We started in Cody, which is really a beautiful spot in the daytime. We were right on the Shoshone River, and got to ride an ATV briefly. We drove to Yellowstone, and then to Old Faithful. We got to the geyser just in time as the crowd was building up and got to see an … Continue reading Day 62: Cody, WY –> Idaho Falls, ID