My name is Jack Lot Raghav, I'm a tech industry professional (ex Amazon) & growing YouTuber (38k @themoderncoder) building an online business (LearnGit.io). In this newsletter, I'll be sharing technical & business insights as I strive for self-employment.
New Office. New Motivation.
Going all in, and managing the fearLately, the biggest hurdle in building LearnGit.io hasn't been technical, but mental. Since quitting my job at Amazon back in summer 2022, I've been wrestling with my identity: Am I just a guy taking a break from his lucrative tech job, or am I an entrepreneur fully invested in doing something different with his career? This month, I took a leap of faith. It starts with a realization: businesses require investment to grow. That investment can be time, money or both. In the beginning, The Modern Coder (my blog and YouTube channel) was a place where I could passively invest extra time. Small investment equals slow growth, and that type of growth was correlated to my (relatively modest) time investment. When I quit my job in July 2022, one driving goal was to pursue a path that would leverage my current skills, yet involve something new and different. Little did I know that doing something wholly different is a much harder mental challenge than I anticipated. Taking the momentum from The Modern Coder and using it launch LearnGit.io was not something I planned to do. The past five months have been a mental shift out of the corporate world as I became an entrepreneur fully committed to self-employment. This week, I took a leap of faith that firmly cements my intentions: I've leased an office space for the express purpose of creating LearnGit.io. The new space Let me introduce you to the office. It's a private office inside a co-working space that will function as my dedicated video studio and desk space while I build out LearnGit.io. The office is small, but (relatively) inexpensive for Brooklyn. Leasing this space is a monetary investment to save hours in setup/teardown each time I create a video. With over 20 videos planned for LearnGit.io, this allows me to save time and enjoy the process of creating LearnGit.io. Goals are mostly about the journey, and not the end state. If you don't enjoy the journey, the goal itself won't be enough to compensate for the day-to-day slog of reaching it. I'm looking forward to the quality improvements this setup with bring. As an added bonus, the videos for The Modern Coder YouTube channel will enjoy the benefits as well. There is a lot more to come in future newsletters. Thanks again for joining the waitlist. Cheers, Jack I have a suggestion I'd love to hear any and all ideas you have for LearnGit.io! If you have a suggestion, please click here to let me know. You'll be taken to the LearnGit.io GitHub page where you can submit a feature request or idea using GitHub Issues.
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My name is Jack Lot Raghav, I'm a tech industry professional (ex Amazon) & growing YouTuber (38k @themoderncoder) building an online business (LearnGit.io). In this newsletter, I'll be sharing technical & business insights as I strive for self-employment.
Collaboration is an essential part of software development — whether with a small team, or a global community in the open-source space. Apologies in advance to the non-technical subset of this audience because this month I want to share some tips & insights that have helped me feel confident navigating the world of open-source. Git hosting services Open-source projects can have hundreds of contributors from around the world, and are typically hosted on platforms like GitHub or GitLab. These...
You are receiving this message because you subscribed to The Modern Coder newsletter. Unsubscribe with the link in the footer. Last month I wrote a newsletter so raw and visceral I asked my wife "should I actually send this?". She replied "it's your truth", and so I sent it. The gist of that last newsletter was that, 2.5 years after leaving my career at Amazon and 1.5 years after starting LearnGit.io, I've landed at a point of uncertainty. Thankfully, I now have a bit more clarity about the...
Two and a half years ago, I quit my full-time job as a software engineer at Amazon. Since then, I've been recovering from burnout and attempting to start a business teaching Git to people on the internet. If I could sum up this past year, it would be the seemingly endless exercise in convincing myself that everything I've worked on this past year wasn't a complete waste of time, and that my life choices weren't a huge mistake. I gather this feeling is fairly standard among self-employed...