Learning Out Loud

“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.” -Eric Hoffer

Andrew Horn, a mentor of mine encouraged me to follow the path of Learning Out Loud. While I initially thought the concept seemed a little gimicky and was worried that this was going to be another version of “sharpening the saw” or “thinking win / win”, I quickly realized that there is a lot of validity to this concept of learning out loud.

With admittedly a minimal amount of effort, I believe this is the link he sent me to. https://discoverpraxis.com/10270/3-reasons-learn-loud/

The irony here is that I have always considered myself to be an ever-learner. I want to be learning until the day I die. But the interesting thing is that I wanted to learn in private and surprise people with what I know. While that makes for a good time at a party, asking me random trivia questions, or playing 6 degrees to Kevin Bacon, it doesn’t apply the appropriate pressure to ensuring that someone is learning to understand, learning to do. [sidenote] Before Google and internet in our pockets, I was the person that friends would call and ask who sang “that one song?” or “who was in that one movie?” Shazam and IMDB stole all my thunder. [endsidenote]

This brings me to my point. Why am I going to be writing a blog about coding? While I know a little bit about coding, I don’t know it like I want to. And the goal is that writing a blog about my learning adventure, every other day, is going to help me feel more solid in my standing as a developer.

Do I expect anyone to read this? GOD NO! And I as luck would have it, I imagine my parents are going to find this, post it on Facebook and out me as a wannabe blogger. Either way, I am going to put a record out there that shows that I dove into the deep end and proved that I wanted to not only learn software development, but also maybe encouraged some others that were a little nervous about admitting that they wanted to become a coder too.

And in case you didn’t go to the article I linked, I gotta drop the quotes here.

“The poem a reader reads may be better than that which the writer wrote. Try to make things that can become better than what you thought you were doing.” -Brian Eno

“Do everything in public and for the public. The more people you reach, the more useful you are. The opposite is hiding, which is of no use to anyone.” -Derek Sivers

Here goes! 100 Days of Code…