My name is Jack Lot Raghav, I'm a tech industry professional (ex Amazon) & growing YouTuber (35k @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
My name is Jack Lot Raghav, I'm a tech industry professional (ex Amazon) & growing YouTuber (35k @themoderncoder) building an online business (LearnGit.io). In this newsletter, I'll be sharing monthly technical & business insights as I strive for self-employment.
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...
Happy August! ☀️ I wasn't able to send a July newsletter due to a crazy travel schedule. Just a heads up, this newsletter focuses mainly on updates to the learning platform I'm building: LearnGit.io. If you're interested in a more narrative newsletter, check out my June update. My summer travels landed me in sunny Napa, California, where I was able to spend some quality time with old friends. Free Trial We'll start with the big news: Anyone can now access a LearnGit.io free trial! The first 2...
Along with some big updates on my small business, LearnGit.io, this month I share the story of why I moved to NYC, and the bumpy ending to my 7-year-long career at Amazon. Thanks for reading! Change In the past 6 years, change has been a reliable companion. To recap, I moved to NYC, quit my job of 7 years at Amazon, got married, started a small business, and (just this month) got kicked out of my apartment... Our old 430 sqft, 1bd Brooklyn apartment. We're smiling in this picture, but on the...