August 2025
- Aug 12, 2025IdeasLow-Risk Learning ProjectsThe case against the dramatic career leap. Adam Grant's Originals cites research by Raffiee and Feng finding that entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs were 33 percent less likely to fail than those who quit. The same logic applies to skill building: separate risk into its financial, career, time and reversibility dimensions, then design projects you can exit at any stage. Internal work, private builds, informational interviews and open source all qualify.
- Aug 11, 2025IdeasSide Projects That Teach SkillsMax Howell started Homebrew in 2009 as a personal fix for package management he found frustrating on Mac OS X, written in Ruby, a language he was then learning. He later said the first two years taught him more practical systems programming than formal education would have. The useful test for any side project is whether you get stuck regularly: one that never stalls is teaching you nothing new.
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