I live in the mountain so this answer depends on the time of day. I'll answer in the context of right now - January. If it snowed last night. Wake up around 8ish. Answer emails. Check Twitter. Mostly mindless stuff. Around 9-10 snowboard for an hour or two. Come home and work the rest of the day. If it didn't snow Wake up around 8ish. Answer emails. Check Twitter. Mostly mindless stuff. Do yoga/workout for a bit. Work until around 3-4. Snowboard for an hour or two. Come home and work the rest of the night. I'd expound on that more but there's really nothing special.

Q1. First let me say everyone is a genius in a bull market. So in no way do I think my returns are because I'm special. It's mostly just really, really lucky timing. I take a pretty passive approach to investing. Stock market wise the S&P 500 (SPY), Amazon, and Facebook make up pretty much my whole portfolio. Luckily for me, all of those have had really great returns the last year. Will that continue? No idea. Crypto wise I really like XLM, VEN, ICX, and ETH. Assuming there's not a huge crypto crash this year (which there probably will be 🤷‍♂️) I'd say those are good bets. Q2. I'm usually pretty open about sharing finances (obviously), but I think it's in my best interest to keep this one on the DL. Sorry! Q3. It's Udacity not Udemy (often confused). They sought me out cause they had taken my React Fundamentals course and at the time I was working with Michael and Ryan of Thriller and React Router fame. Q4. Both are great. I'd recommend state management if you get to the point in your app where you go "hm. I think I need Redux/MobX". I typically always start out with just React though. Q5. Any thoughts that I would have would be uneducated so I'll just not answer this one :) Thanks for the questions!

That's a really hard question to answer because there are so many variables. SR I'd say $90K. Mid level I'd say $70K JR $30-50K Those are as close to guesses as you get though.

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That's a fantastic stack and the one I would choose today if I needed to be as productive as possible. I've never created a Web app that's used on both web and native, but I imagine if you structure things right, you'll be able to get a lot of reuse (at least from a logic standpoint). Have you looked into https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web? I don't have any personal experience with it but I've heard good things.

Great question. React Router is a great codebase if you're looking to study. What's interesting about React Router is there aren't a ton of changes being made to it because it's mostly "done" (as much as software can be). For contributing, I'd say any project that you use and are interesting in. The best PRs come from personal uses cases you run into. Build stuff then let that guide you to what libraries you should help out with.

I have two answers here because there are two angles I could take with this. Developer Tyler: Reason (reason-react) with Firebase and their new cloud functions. All signals are pointing to Reason being the "next React". Business Tyler: Gatsby. It would minimize the amount of time until I could start being productive (from a business standpoint). For the record my site uses Gatsby today...

Start. I didn't start programming until I was 21 :) Regardless, this aligns nicely with the advice I give everyone starting out. First, be patient. It's a marathon, not a race. There will be people who learn faster than you and that's OK. Programming isn't like sports. The window you have to be a "good programmer" is the rest of your life. The only metric you should care about is consistency. If you're consistently progressing, you're fine. Second, find people smarter than you and copy what they do. If they're all talking about React, check out React. If they're all talking about Vue, there's probably a reason for that. Third, write to understand. Blogging has been by far the biggest driver in my understanding of a concept. If you get to the point where you can break something down into an intelligible blog post, you'll know that thing.

TBH I never use those. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing but this question made me add something to by "study" list.

I wish I was more educated on this topic but unfortunately I'm not. As I mentioned in a previous question, I try to only give my opinion when it's an educated one and with this topic, it's not. Definitely have GraphQL/Apollo on my "to learn" list this year though.