Quincy Larson
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They didn't have like lots of ground line and like it was a big deal. Even in, you know, rural America today, like a lot of people don't necessarily have like good phone lines and stuff, but cell phones came out and they kind of like leapfrogged that. And now people just use cell phones, right? And similar things with like fiber optic cables and satellites.
They didn't have like lots of ground line and like it was a big deal. Even in, you know, rural America today, like a lot of people don't necessarily have like good phone lines and stuff, but cell phones came out and they kind of like leapfrogged that. And now people just use cell phones, right? And similar things with like fiber optic cables and satellites.
And now you can kind of leapfrog that to an extent, right? So I view FreeCodeCamp as kind of like we leapfrogged 400 years of innovation and stuff. And we were able to look at whatever we was doing and just choose what we thought worked and focus on something very narrow that we thought we could do.
And now you can kind of leapfrog that to an extent, right? So I view FreeCodeCamp as kind of like we leapfrogged 400 years of innovation and stuff. And we were able to look at whatever we was doing and just choose what we thought worked and focus on something very narrow that we thought we could do.
And everything is dictated by budget and everything is dictated by what we likely can actually affect change in. which is developing a really good programming curriculum and teaching some English and creating a bunch of extracurricular resources like free cocaine, YouTube channel. We just published a course on music production using Fruity Loops studio, right?
And everything is dictated by budget and everything is dictated by what we likely can actually affect change in. which is developing a really good programming curriculum and teaching some English and creating a bunch of extracurricular resources like free cocaine, YouTube channel. We just published a course on music production using Fruity Loops studio, right?
So we're going to be teaching lots of cool stuff. We published a DaVinci resolve course and you could argue, Oh, that's not math programming, computer science, that's video production. But the reality is like by being pretty focused on just a few key things and doing a few key things well and not trying to be everything to everybody, the cost involved is, you know, a tiny fraction.
So we're going to be teaching lots of cool stuff. We published a DaVinci resolve course and you could argue, Oh, that's not math programming, computer science, that's video production. But the reality is like by being pretty focused on just a few key things and doing a few key things well and not trying to be everything to everybody, the cost involved is, you know, a tiny fraction.
You know, Gandhi, Gandhi said, uh, first, uh, they ignore you, then they laugh at you and then they fight you and then they, then you win. Right. Right. And, and, um, that joke,
You know, Gandhi, Gandhi said, uh, first, uh, they ignore you, then they laugh at you and then they fight you and then they, then you win. Right. Right. And, and, um, that joke,
Yeah, that is a person I do not want to go to a dinner party with.
Yeah, that is a person I do not want to go to a dinner party with.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I have no idea. But I think, first of all, I don't think university is a scam. I think it's overpriced. If you were to make university free, then I think a ton of people would go. And when I say university, I mean like just getting a four-year degree. But college, what we call college in the United States, by the way, is just anything. They could even include graduate school.
I have no idea. But I think, first of all, I don't think university is a scam. I think it's overpriced. If you were to make university free, then I think a ton of people would go. And when I say university, I mean like just getting a four-year degree. But college, what we call college in the United States, by the way, is just anything. They could even include graduate school.
They could even include medical school if you're a physician. When I was in school, a lot of people just call it school because it's just like this big abstract N years of learning that you have to go through. So I think university education is fine. I don't think everything is perfect. I think it's pretty inefficient.
They could even include medical school if you're a physician. When I was in school, a lot of people just call it school because it's just like this big abstract N years of learning that you have to go through. So I think university education is fine. I don't think everything is perfect. I think it's pretty inefficient.
I think the idea that you have to do two years of general ed before you actually get to the core. of what your subject matter that you're studying. And I think there's plenty of things that you can have fair critique on, but what I think you can't critique is if you were to remove all costs from it, then college would be, I don't think college would be controversial at all.
I think the idea that you have to do two years of general ed before you actually get to the core. of what your subject matter that you're studying. And I think there's plenty of things that you can have fair critique on, but what I think you can't critique is if you were to remove all costs from it, then college would be, I don't think college would be controversial at all.