Generally, I hate training - just like most people, I guess. I try to make it fun and varied.

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way

I feel like people are expecting me to fail; therefore, I expect myself to win.

Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.

It's important for everyone to stand up for what they believe in.

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Personal Development

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Motivation & Inspiration

Lewis Hamilton Quotes

Project management is the application of strategies, skills, and tools to achieve a specific goal.
Every project starts as an idea that needs to be planned, organised, executed, managed, tracked, completed, and measured. A project manager will oversee all these aspects.
Knowing the terms project managers use can help you in an acronym-heavy board room banter.

Project Management Terms

<ul><li>Agile. A method of working quickly to adapt to rapid changes.</li><li>Backlog. A complete list of tasks that make up a whole project scope.</li><li>Baseline. An original plan or estimate for a project's timeline, budget, scope and goals.</li><li>Blocker. A block that slows the way forward, such as technology complications or budget constraints.</li><li>Bottleneck. A narrow or constricted flow, pace, and capacity of a project.</li><li>Brainstorming. A tool for creative ideation and solutions.</li><li>Budget. The estimated total cost to complete a project.</li></ul>

Project Management Terms (A - B)

<ul><li>Case study. Research-based studies that dive into use-cases and various approaches to project management.</li><li>Change management. How to manage and control changes within a project or team.</li><li>Contingency plan. A detailed emergency backup plan for how to effectively manage any problems.</li><li>Critical path method (CPM). A modelling technique for scheduling out a project step-by-step, considering how long each task will take.</li><li>Dashboards. Digital tools that are a centralised hub of organised information.</li><li>Deliverables. Outputs delivered throughout or at the end of a project.</li></ul>

Project Management Terms (C - D)

<ul><li>Earned Value Management (EVM). A way to measure a project’s performance and progress.</li><li>Fast tracking. A way to speed up a project’s progress.</li><li>Gantt chart. A bar graph for scheduling project tasks where activities are measured against time.</li><li>Issue management. A way to see and resolve issues.</li><li>Kickoff meeting. The first meeting with stakeholders and team members at the beginning of a project.</li><li>Meeting minutes. Notes taken during a meeting.</li><li>Milestone. Key points throughout a project's timeline used as markers.</li><li>Mission critical. A critical factor to the success of a project or an organisation's success.</li></ul>

Project Management Terms (E - M)

<ul><li>Procurement. Obtaining goods, services, or supplies.</li><li>Project constraints. Any factors that can limit a project’s success.</li><li>Project life cycle. The stages that a project goes through.</li><li>Project management software. Software used for all aspects of project management.</li><li>Project manager. The person in charge of all aspects of a project.</li><li>Project plan. An approved document created before a project is executed.</li><li>Quality control. A standardised way to ensure the quality expectations are met.</li></ul>

Project Management Terms (P - Q)

<ul><li>RACI Chart (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed). A way to assign roles and responsibilities.</li><li>Reporting. A visual way to check in on the status, progress, or results of a project.</li><li>Resource allocation. Assigning the best available resources to a particular project.</li><li>Resources. Anything necessary to complete a project or task.</li><li>Risk management. Identifying and managing risks that could impact a project.</li><li>Risk mitigation. A strategy where the probability of risk is minimised by taking certain precautions.</li><li>Risk owner. The person responsible for risk management and mitigation.</li></ul>

Project Management Terms (R)

<ul><li>Scope. An outline of the boundaries of all aspects of a project.</li><li>Scope creep. The scope of a project expands uncontrollably.</li><li>Scrum. A method of working in quick, short sprints.</li><li>Slack (or float). The maximum amount of time a task can be delayed until it affects a project timeline.</li><li>Sprint. A predetermined amount of time to complete one task.</li><li>Stakeholders. Individuals, teams, or organisations impacted by a project outcome.</li><li>Status report. A Summary of a project’s progress to date.</li><li>SWOT analysis. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of a project.</li></ul>

Project Management Terms (S)

<ul><li>Task management. Managing all aspects of tasks within a project.</li><li>Timeline. A breakdown of all tasks and activities within a particular project organised in chronological order.</li><li>Use case. All the ways an end-user could use a product or service.</li><li>Waterfall. A method for working sequentially through clearly established project phases.</li><li>Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Organised breakdown of a project into hierarchical sections and the tasks within each. </li><li>Work In Progress (WIP). A pre-approved work, labour, materials, and other project expenses that has yet to be invoiced.</li></ul>

Project Management Terms (T - W)

You already walk the walk of a project manager, but you need to talk the talk. Consider this your go-to guide of project management terms. 

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Leadership & Management

New To Project Management? Here Are 50 Terms You Should Know

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Extreme optimism and fatalistic pessimism may seem to be stark opposites, but they both end in apathy</li><li class="ql-align-justify">If things were sure to improve or bound to collapse, then our actions would not matter one way or the other</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Individual actions matter deeply, but given enough time, the free market is shockingly good at directing those individuals' actions and money at tackling the right really hard problems</li></ul>

The Future Of Problem Solving

<ul><li>The next decade is going to see unimaginable developments in health, space, economic design, VR, energy, and beyond</li><li>There will be winners and losers at the individual company level. Certain industries will take longer to develop than others</li><li>On a decade-scale and beyond, the market will somehow figure out how to put tremendous resources towards the biggest challenges</li></ul>

The Next Decade

<ul><li>Entrepreneurship is the invisible hand directing capital and talent toward solving problems.</li><li>The biggest challenges attract a swarm of talent and capital that grinds them down until they're largely solved.</li><li>This should mean more volatility as the swarm moves faster and faster, but it should also mean that we're knocking down problems at a higher and higher rate.</li><li>Over time, the swarm attacks, the volume and types of people and capital each problem attracts evolves, and the problems that attract and hold the swarm's attention will undoubtedly get fixed.</li></ul>

An Invisible Swarm

The “Greentech bubble” Of 2006: Greentech investing attracted a swarm of entrepreneurs, and those entrepreneurs got to work building new solutions and scaling the deployment of existing ones, and over the past decade, the cost of energy from renewable sources has come down dramatically.Today, a new climate boom is underway.This is a problem that needs to be solved and there's no better way to solve a problem than by attracting the swarm. Climate Tech is the next frontier of the swarm.

Greentech To Climate Tech

<ul><li>Space exploration in the United States had been stagnant for decades when Elon Musk launched SpaceX in 2002.</li><li>SpaceX did the near-impossible over the course of two decades in order to finally attract the swarm.</li><li>By laying out his vision and plan, he was able to attract the most adventurous and passionate part of the swarm to help make it a reality.</li></ul>

The Elon Musk Example

<ul><li>The swarm explains why web3 is so controversial. To some, it's Fast on steroids.</li><li>To others, it looks like the ultimate swarm hack: a product with money baked in, designed to attract talent and capital despite having no real impact.</li><li>UX issues, mini-bubbles in categories like DAO tools, high transaction costs, etc - are classic cynic traps. By pointing at them, they're only directing the swarm to solve those problems, like those fun dancing tarmac traffic directors.</li></ul>

Web 3.0 And The Swarm

<ul><li>The swarm is attracted to big problems and has proven its ability to solve them.</li><li>Companies come and go, and technologies get hyped up and fade away, but eventually, the swarm smooths out problems until the sexiest, most challenging things are just boring, normal industries.</li><li>Extreme optimism doesn't necessarily lead to apathy.</li><li>We need to do everything possible to let the swarm attack the biggest problems.</li></ul>

A Formula for Optimism

Or, Why I'm Optimistic the Problems that Matter Will Get Solved

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Technology & The Future

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Problem Solving

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Science & Nature

The Invisible Hand's Visible Swarm

Education is more than just an organized system of learning. Education should expand our consciousness, capabilities, sensitivities, and cultural understanding. It should enlarge our worldview. As we all live in two worlds—the world within you that exists only because you do, and the world around you—the core purpose of education is to enable students to understand both worlds. In today’s climate, there is also a new and urgent challenge: to provide forms of education that engage young people with the global-economic issues of environmental well-being.

The Purpose Of Education

<ul><li>Learning is the process of acquiring new skills and understanding</li><li>Training is a type of education that is focused on learning specific skills</li></ul>Children love to learn, they do it naturally; many have a hard time with education, and some have big problems with school.Young people need to know, understand, and be able to do certain things. As a result, many do not fit in the assumptions of compulsory education.

Learning Vs Training

There are a few terms that are often confused or used interchangeably—“learning,” “education,” “training,” and “school”—but there are important differences between them. It is vital that we differentiate these terms: Children love to learn, they do it naturally; many have a hard time with education, and some have big problems with school.

Understanding The Various Terms

<ul><li>Education should enable young people to engage with the world within them as well as the world around them</li><li>All individuals have unique strengths and weaknesses, outlooks and personalities.</li><li>Students do not come in standard physical shapes or sizes.</li><li>They all have their own aptitudes and dispositions and different ways of understanding things.</li></ul>

The First Purpose: Personal

<ul><li>There are various definitions of culture, but the most appropriate is "the values and forms of behaviour that characterize different social groups."</li><li>Education is one of the ways that communities pass on values from one generation to the next.</li><li>Living respectfully with diversity is not just an ethical choice, it is a practical imperative.</li></ul>

The Second Purpose: Cultural

<ul><li>Education should enable students to become economically responsible and independent.</li><li>An educated workforce is essential to creating economic prosperity.</li><li>The world of work has changed so profoundly since the Industrial Revolution.</li><li>Many jobs are disappearing and being rapidly replaced by contemporary counterparts.</li><li>Schools need to prepare students to navigate this ever-changing economic landscape.</li></ul>

The Third Purpose: Economic

<ul><li>Education should enable young people to become active and compassionate citizens.</li><li>For a democratic society to function, it depends upon the majority of its people being active within the democratic process.</li><li>In many democracies, this is not the case.</li><li>Schools should engage students in becoming active, and proactive, democratic participants.</li></ul>

The Fourth Purpose: Social

The conventional curriculum is based on a collection of separate subjects. These are prioritized according to beliefs around the limited understanding of intelligence we discussed in the previous chapter, as well as what is deemed to be important later in life. The idea of “subjects” suggests that each subject, whether mathematics, science, art, or language, stands completely separate from all the other subjects. This is problematic, and as we later find out, incorrect as well.

The Standard Curriculum

The concept of disciplines brings us to a better starting point when planning the curriculum, which is to ask what students should know and be able to do as a result of their education. The four purposes suggest eight core competencies that if properly integrated into education, will equip students who leave school to engage in the economic, cultural, social, and personal challenges they will inevitably face in their lives. These competencies are curiosity, creativity, criticism, communication, collaboration, compassion, composure, and citizenship.

The Eight Competencies

Education should not be one size fits all.

Read an excerpt from a new book by Sir Ken Robinson and Kate Robinson, which calls for redesigning education for the future.

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Learning & Education

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Society, Arts & Culture

What Is Education For?

If you spend any time around people, you’ll quickly see that while we tend to attribute our own problems to outside events, we’re happy to blame other people for similar issues.This attribution bias, or fundamental attribution error, causes us to over-emphasize internal motivations to explain someone’s behaviour while under-emphasizing the situation factors.We assume that someone’s actions tell us what “kind” of person they are, as opposed to considering the environmental factors that may have influenced their behaviour.

Attribution Error

Most of us are prone to attribution error as it’s a mental shortcut that keeps us from having to think too hard. It’s much simpler to blame someone’s personality than take into account all of the situational factors that may be affecting them.We also like predictability in dealing with other people. We want to know who we can trust and who we can’t. Internal traits are relatively stable. External events are changing all the time. Attributing someone’s behavior to their personality lets us categorize that person for future events.

The Easy Mental Shortcut

One of the first lessons a new manager learns is that people rarely do what you ask them to do. The second lesson is that the fault almost always lies with the manager. Ninety percent of poor behaviours tend to be a result of miscommunication.Managers, especially newer managers, struggle to set clear expectations. They’re unpracticed in giving clear, actionable feedback. And they rarely give their team definitive priorities.

People Often Fail, But Not Because They’re Failures

New managers can go through a quick checklist and look at four potential causes whenever someone fails to live up to their expectations:<ul><li>Direction — Did I clearly communicate my expectations?</li><li>Competence — Did this person have the skill necessary to succeed?</li><li>Opportunity — Did they have the time and resources necessary to succeed?</li><li>Motivation — Were they motivated to do it?</li></ul>

The Checklist For The New Manager

Hanlan’s Razor states, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” It’s a good maxim to remember when we start thinking someone’s a jerk for making our lives difficult. But it’s just as important to remember that simply because someone does something stupid, doesn’t mean that they are stupid.Most workplaces are no stranger to incompetence. Yet they don’t hire incompetent people. And they don’t train people to be incompetent. Nevertheless, you don’t need to look hard to find examples of dumb choices and ill-advised actions.

The Reason For Office Incompetence

<ul><li>Have compassion for everyone you meet.</li><li>Put yourself in their shoes. Think of a time that you were in a similar situation and recognize how external factors influenced your own behaviours.</li><li>Instead of assuming, simply have a conversation and understand what’s really driving people’s behaviour.</li></ul>

Overcome Your Attribution Bias Today

If I don’t respond to someone’s email, it’s because I’m busy. Or maybe I got tied up doing more important things. Either way, I had the best of intentions, it’s just that something else got in the…

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

Leadership Biases: Stop Letting Attribution Error Hold You Back

Diving into a new project is an exciting challenge, but it takes time to develop context, address stakeholder needs, and meaningfully understand the problem. Without even realizing it, we begin to work with blinders on. We can overlook important perspectives outside of the project, reinvent the wheel, and duplicate work. When we miss opportunities to reach out to others and share our work, it ultimately reduces true business impact and can often result in projects that miss their mark.

Sharing Of Our Work

How can we shift our thinking, take our blinkers off and ensure we’re sharing our work in a more inclusive way? These questions can be answered by a familiar model – that which the film industry has used to support movie releases for decades. We can all relate to anticipation of an upcoming film – from the announcement of a movie to the cast of the big Hollywood project. Advertisements are inescapable – they’re on the side of our bus to work, they’re in the magazine we’re reading, and they’re infiltrating our social media feeds, podcasts, and television shows.

How A Movie Is Promoted

As the divide between the physical and digital worlds blurs, audiences want to feel like they’re part of the project. By providing interested parties with relevant information, film crews can nurture a sense of community and excitement.Applying this familiar model, we can transform how a project is executed and shared, reduce unforeseen work, eliminate duplication, and most importantly, increase the success of our output. Here, we’ll dive into the ways we can apply the film industry’s tried and tested model to future projects.

A Blockbuster Promotion Campaign

Start with the concept, decide the problem to be solved, and gather all relevant historical context. That means acknowledging the needs of your audience or customers, and the ways this work will impact them – both positively and negatively. Document this step with in-depth notes, seeking feedback from contributors.

Film Industry Lingo Translated To Tech: The Concept

Transform the idea into a project outline with your audience (anyone who’ll be involved with the project) in mind. Make sure to include essential context, the problem statement and desired outcome. Link all relevant documents and resources to provide a holistic overview of the topic.

The Screenplay

Ask yourself “Who can help me with this project?” and “Could other departments benefit from exposure to this work?”. Select those who are most relevant and ask them who else should be included in the work. Define your DACI, mapping out the project-specific Driver(s), Approver(s), Contributor(s), and those who will be informed as the project progresses.

Your Cast Of Characters

You’ve addressed your concept and problem, and planned the steps you need to take to create your output. Depending on your area of expertise, the format of the output will vary (e.g., it might be a written document, presentation, data analysis, design, video, etc.).

The Filming Part: Lights Camera Action

Give yourself space and time to reflect and review. Address any new questions raised in the output and share the <a href="https://thinkinsights.net/consulting/strawman-proposal-brainstorming-the-mckinsey-way/">strawman proposal</a> with the key stakeholder group.

Editing Process

This is your opportunity to create hype and momentum around the project. Depending on the output, the trailer can appear in different formats – from a one-page project overview to highlight reels, a dashboard, or designs. It’s also an opportunity to share information about the delivery date and encourage attendance.

Building Anticipation: Trailers

This is your chance to present to a smaller audience i.e., the DACI(Driver(s), Approver(s), Contributor(s), and those who will be Informed) an editing stage to review the work. It allows you to gather initial feedback and update the output ahead of the wider launch date.

Screening: Sharing With Those Involved

This is the project deadline – the day you share your work with a wider audience, including your stakeholders and interested parties. It is a great opportunity to present the content, your plan for it, and its potential impact on your team and the wider company. Record the session and promote re-watching and further sharing of the content.

The Movie Premiere

Welcome feedback and gather perspectives from the audience, whether through a form, a listening tour, or direct messages. Feedback is a gift, and this stage is crucial to understanding the project impact and how the output will influence decisions. It also determines whether there will be a potential sequel, or the need for more work off the back of this output.

Review And Critique

Maximize the staying power of the project over time to ensure the project has longevity and momentum is maintained months after. Take every opportunity to reshare your content whenever relevant. Depending on the project type this may even be an opportunity to create a franchise by carrying out additional analysis and maintaining data over time to continue creating value – much like the film industry does with merchandising.

Building Your Franchise

The goal of this process is not to change your project stages completely, but instead to make them more effective and impactful. It’s time to be noticed and let people celebrate your work!Start small and begin to apply aspects of this model to your next project, thinking outside of your function (e.g., sharing with the product, marketing, sales, and finance teams) and reaching wider to connect with other stakeholders who are keen to collaborate. Whether you are starting off in your career or a leader – everyone can take something from this process.

The Bottom Line: Don't Let Your Production Go Straight To DVD!

We believe in the power of sharing cross-functionally. Seeking feedback at every stage helps avoid bottlenecks and drives business impact.

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Communication

Transform the way you share your work: Tricks from Hollywood’s publicity playbook

Design Sprint is a shortcut to learn without building and launching.
It was created by Google Ventures about 5 years ago, and the Design Sprint framework is based on the understanding of Design Thinking. Design Sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with final users and customers; basically, a way to solve design problems quickly.

Understanding Design Sprint

The Sprint Master starts defining the problem and after the definition of the problem is revealed, the Spring-Master works in the following problem-solving ways to resolve the challenge. <ul><li>Understand</li><li>Diverge/Sketch</li><li>Decide</li><li>Prototype</li><li>Validate</li></ul>

Stages Of A Design Sprint

<ul><li>You can use it anytime during the design process:</li><li>At the beginning of a project to define what your product is offering or to create a shared vision;</li><li>When you’re at an impasse or have encountered impediments;</li><li>To inject speed in the development process.</li></ul>

When To Use A Design Sprint

The benefits of running a Design Sprint are:<ul><li>Solves design problems quickly;</li><li>User validation;</li><li>Allows you to fail early;</li><li>Design perspective to Agile;</li><li>Collaboration tool.</li></ul>

Benefits Of A Design Sprint

Collection of Top design frameworks adopted by world’s leading brands for product and user experience innovation

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Teamwork

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Business

Design Frameworks

I spent almost a month in India, I visited some cities there, and when I was in Hyderabad, I had an opportunity to participate in a Design Sprint workshop presented by Googlers at UX Reactor. The…

How Google Design Sprint Works

<a href="https://twitter.com/tomfilsinger">Tom Filsinger</a> is a Psychology Lecturer at Northern Arizona University, teaching Psychology of Personality, Social Psychology, and Group Behavior. He is also an <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&amp;rh=p_27%3ATom+Filsinger&amp;s=relevancerank&amp;text=Tom+Filsinger&amp;ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1">author,</a> and entrepreneur that started his own game company, <a href="http://filsingergames.com/">Filsinger Games</a> which markets tabletop cards and dice games as well as online sims.Tom also partnered with Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee in 2008 on a book of political humour called Election Daze.

All Events in Life, Wonderful or Tragic, Are Opportunities for Learning and Growth

Some of my work is Online (my college teaching) and other work (my game business) involves writing, designing, and planning. I don't eat much because I work best in the morning after a light meal. I do the "heavy lifting" earlier in the day and prefer more routine or Rote work in the evening.&nbsp;

What does a typical day look like for you now?

Being forced to stay inside due to coronavirus has made me healthier in some ways. For example, I am preparing the main meal of a salad every day since I am not on campus where I would usually eat out. I am the king of healthy salads! I put around a dozen healthy ingredients in them including cucumbers, peppers, onions, beets, tomato, carrots, sunflowers seeds, raisins, you name it.

How has coronavirus impacted your work/life?

I write a schedule every morning for what I intend to accomplish. Nothing fancy, just on a standard sheet of typing paper with a checklist of boxes to mark. I always feel a sense of accomplishment to check off those boxes. Whatever I don’t check off makes the list the next day.

What productivity tips have you found useful whilst working from home?

<ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Online-Teaching-Effectively-Technology/dp/0674660021/">Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology </a>by Michelle D. Miller. Michelle is a colleague of mine at NAU.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Story-Proof-Science-Behind-Startling-dp-1591585465/dp/1591585465/">Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Stories </a>by Kendall Haven.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stan-Lee-Comic-Superhero-Essential/dp/1604537027/">Stan Lee: Comic Book Superhero</a> by Martin Gitlin. A great way to celebrate creativity is to learn more about one of the most inspirational creative figures of all time.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lie-Too-Big-Fail-Assassination/dp/1627310703/">A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy </a>by Lisa Pease.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Divine-Sri-Aurobindo/dp/0941524612/">The Life Divine </a>by Sri Aurobindo. The book is filled with powerful, deep, and penetrating spiritual insights from a master.</li></ul>

What 5 books do you recommend to those during this time at home?

All events in life, wonderful or tragic, are opportunities for learning and growth. This pandemic will be no different. Some people will go with the flow and evolve with the times. Others will be thrown through a loop and have trouble recovering. It’s up to us, we have the power to move forward productively if we are adaptable.

When this is all over, what will the opportunities look like?

Beyond Work with Tom Filsinger — Psychology Lecturer at Northern Arizona University and Founder of Filsinger Games This is the third in the Beyond Work series looking at how founders and innovators…

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Entrepreneurship

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Entertainment

Many people think that they want to "learn how to code", but they don't stop to consider what they want to make.<ul><li>JavaScript is unavoidable if you want to get into front-end development, but many people jump into it without considering what they're trying to do.</li><li>Many computer science programs start with Python, perhaps because it has a simple syntax and robust documentation.</li></ul>If you want to be a developer, start with the end in mind: What do you want to make?

Which programming language to learn first

Figure out what you want to do before you choose a programming language. If you're starting out, select a language that aligns well with your short and long-term goals instead of choosing something random. What are some of the things you want to make? &nbsp;<ul><li>websites&nbsp;</li><li>computer games&nbsp;</li><li>mobile apps (iOS? Android?)&nbsp;</li></ul>What are some of the things you can do?<ul><li>data science</li><li>artificial intelligence</li><li>machine learning</li><li>cyber security</li><li>technical writing</li><li>database administration</li></ul>

Begin with the end

HTML is used to put text, images, and other elements on a website - for example, headers, footers, line breaks, links, italicized text, etc. CSS is used to change how these elements work. CSS lets you customize the look of each element on your page, such as borders, font sizes and grids. Learn Flexbox and Grid to make pages responsive and see how far you can push CSS. Explore Bootstrap, an open-source front-end framework.

HTML and CSS are essential for front-end development

Once you've learned HTML, CSS, Flexbox and Grid, you'll find that your programming journey has led to Java Script. JavaScript is used to make websites interactive and web elements functional. You can add a button to your Website with HTML, style it with CSS, and give it functionality with Javascript. JavaScript can be used to design browser-based games. You can use even use Javascript for Back-End work using Node.Js.

JavaScript

Ruby on Rails is not a language. Ruby is the language. Rails is the framework.&nbsp; Most experienced developers agree that Ruby is fun to use, but it’s pretty intolerant of errors. Ruby is a high-level language that can accomplish quite a bit with just a few lines of code. But it’s not a language that coding academies or computer science programs teach first.

Ruby is a back-end language

SQL is not really a "programming" language. You won't be making entire Apps with it. But you'll use it to communicate with or get information from databases.&nbsp; SQL is essential if you want to work with data science. But if you've never written a single line of code in your life, you probably shouldn't start with SQL.&nbsp;

If you want to be an iOS developer, it’s fine to start with Swift. Swift is a relatively new language and easy to learn. Swift can be your first language to learn if your goal is to be an iOS developer.

Swift

Java used to be one of the most commonly taught languages in computer science programs, but Python and Ruby are easier to learn. If you want to be an Android developer, start with Java. But if not, Python may give you more versatility.&nbsp;

Java (not JavaScript)

A game developer uses Unity. With Unity, you can build amazing games, even as a beginner. With Unity, you'll probably use C#.&nbsp;C #is a great language to learn first if your goal is to be a game developer or if you want to build Microsoft applications.

Python is a versatile general-purpose language. You can use it for almost anything, from web development to games. If you're just interested in coding, you can start with Python. If you want to get a job as a data scientist, you can start with Python. Python is ideal for making it easy to work with huge amounts of data. It has robust documentation.&nbsp;

Python

This is the most common question I’ve received since publishing What I Wish I Knew Before I Learned To Code. Most people assume there’s an obvious choice, but the answer is not always so clear. Many…

Which programming language should I learn first?

Bitcoin works because when it comes to keeping track of where the coins went or who has how many coins, you don't have to trust a person or a central entity to hold your coins. Your coins are yours. That is if you hold the private key to your Bitcoins. People that use exchanges to buy Bitcoin are keeping their coins on these exchanges. But, leaving your coins on an exchange does not mean those coins are yours. You simply trust the exchange to give them to you if you request it. But that can be a problem as these exchanges can be hacked.&nbsp;

Take ownership of your Bitcoins

Segwit (Segregated Witness) is an optional upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol, which separates the digital signature (witness) from the transaction. The advantage of using SegWit is significant network upside and savings on transaction fees. If your favourite wallet has not yet implemented SegWit, ask them to do that. Then use a wallet that has already implemented SegWit.

Use a SegWit wallet (and exchanges)

<a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet" target="_self">If you’re concerned about security, these should be at the top of your list: </a>&nbsp;<ul><li>Ledger Nano S&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>TREZOR&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Digital Bitbox&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul>Desktop Wallets<ul><li>Electrum</li><li>Armory</li></ul>iOS Wallets<ul><li>Edge</li><li>GreenAddress</li></ul>Android Wallets<ul><li>Samourai Wallet</li><li>GreenBits</li><li>Electrum</li></ul>

Hardware Wallets

You should control the private keys to your wallet.&nbsp;Ensure the wallet you use generates a 12-24 word mnemonic seed that lets you back up and restore your wallet. However, don't just use any wallet.

Move your bitcoins to a wallet

The world has officially gone insane over Bitcoin and millions are rushing to buy it. There are a couple of things that need to be said, now more than ever. Let’s get straight to the point. That is…