2017 was the year I built a team of amazing people. We are small, but incredibly effective. The 7 of us — 5 full time and 2 contractors. We are all focused together on one mission together: improving the state of (professional) education.
We are all working together on Frontend Masters, where 50+ teachers share their experiences and knowledge with tens of thousands of software developers, making an impact on their careers and their life’s path.
The team captured the story of starting Frontend Masters (5 minutes) — enjoy!
Go check out the discussion on Facebook!
Some podcasts appearances I’ve made recently!
JavaScript Jabber: Tech Education and the Business of Frontend Masters — answering a lot of questions about e-learning and telling the history of Frontend Masters.
Know Priorities: Marc Grabanski – I spill lots of solid business tools and tactics. This is the deepest I’ve ever gotten into the business side.
ShopTalk Show: Marc Grabanski – mostly about the Q&A. Discussing markdown, JSON and WordPress script loading.
Online Course Coach: How to create video courses from LIVE online and in-person workshops with Marc Grabanski – centered around the video production side and how to produce and promote online courses.
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This post contains tools and tactics you can use to be more secure living your digital life.
I was listening to an episode of the Timothy Ferris podcast with Marc Goodman discussing high-tech crime and it jogged my mind about “threat profiles”. Everyone has threats and should take stock of where you’re likely volnerable, what would be lost and how to recover.
You should just start by knowing that living in a digital world you can’t be 100% secure 100% of the time.
This is the year I quit consulting. I put all my eggs into one basket in order to be building something lasting which increases its value over time. It was one of the most difficult years for me because for the first half of the year I was consulting while trying to bootstrap the business (two full time jobs). And not like other years where I was only consulting a little bit or working on the education business a little bit — no…this year I was working full on both.
