After 31 days and 46 hours of live coding on twitch, I have some thoughts!

This Monday was my first day at Insider, and after nearly three years at HasGeek - the first and only company I’ve worked at - this is rather bittersweet.

I’ve come to loathe modern competitive programming.

The Recurse Center is only as good as the effort you put into it. Allowing people to be entirely self directed is a double edged sword - the flexibility afforded allows for a lot of self exploration, but also makes it very easy to get distracted by all the little things and never really get any work done.