My name is Jack Lot Raghav, I'm a tech industry professional (ex Amazon) & growing YouTuber (27k @themoderncoder) building an online business (LearnGit.io). In this newsletter, I'll be sharing monthly 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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The Modern Coder
Programmer & YouTuber building LearnGit.io
My name is Jack Lot Raghav, I'm a tech industry professional (ex Amazon) & growing YouTuber (27k @themoderncoder) building an online business (LearnGit.io). In this newsletter, I'll be sharing monthly technical & business insights as I strive for self-employment.
We've gained a couple hundred new readers in the past few months, so I thought this could be a good time to revisit some of my favorite stories: ➡️ In my latest newsletter, I talk about how I got started in web development, and shared some of my early designs. ➡️ Here's one of my personal favorites: I share the story of investing in a private office space, and with a behind-the-scenes video, I show how I built out the space. ➡️ Lastly, from my very first waitlist newsletter, I explain the...
I started building websites when I was a teenager, sometime around 2007. In the beginning, I did what most people did: created a file called index.html, threw in some basic tags, and added CSS directly to the HEAD. People find their way into programming careers via all sorts of avenues. My on-ramp was website building. As my interest in web development grew, so did my desire to make my websites flashier and more complex. That's when I found the crown jewel of Window's Vista-era software:...
Last month the online business that I'm building, LearnGit.io, went into early access. I want to thank you all for your support! Over 20 people took the leap and signed up (detailed numbers at the end of the newsletter). I'm grateful for the support. It feels like I'm running a real business now! Speaking of real businesses: Starting in this newsletter, I'll be sharing some numbers behind LearnGit.io — things like customer signups, revenue, expenses, etc. I can't promise I'll continue this...