Yo Horacio,

Consistency, by far. Kind of like taking care of your health, doing a little each day goes a long way to take care of all the big things.

When I got started, I had a "share everything I learn" mindset. I ran a blog called pv3d.org +10 years ago that was chock-full of 3d code demos. I started turning those into video content over time and then that eventually turned into egghead.

To get started, share something, anything, the smallest possible thing that you can think of. Be consistent with it and "get your reps in". It gets much easier the more that you do it and you'll gain the confidence to share bigger and bigger things.

This is so helpful John Lindquist. Thanks for sharing!

absolutelyJohn Lindquist

Hey Aissa, great question. The best way to overcome perfectionism in content is by producing in the smallest bits possible. Can you make a perfect 3 minute video? Probably not. Can you make a perfect 20 seconds? Definitely!

Add up enough 20 seconds and you'll have a video you can post and be proud of. You got this!

Hi Benjamin, great questions:

1. We work hands-on with our instructors for the first few lessons. We review and discuss how they can be improved. Once they reach a certain point, then instructors can make lessons without review.

2. We're not a traditional online learning shop. We have a lot of content for intermediate/expert developers who want to keep their skills sharp and up-to-date which is much different than a "school". We were currently working on a lot of educational/exercise/materials/etc to provide a better expertise path for students and it's something we hope will help the community achieve their goals.

John Lindquist

Thank you!

A wee follow up - do you use or have you considered using a third party learning management system or are you building everything on your own platform?

Benjamin Miller

We've looked at LMS's and more recently diving into SCORM, but we'll build out our own thing as we integrate exercises/progress/etc into our courses.

Hi Chris! I'm having trouble answering this question because it implies I would have been doing something different the past 8 years. I know I would have been making content regardless of whether or not egghead existed. So I guess I would have racked up a huge library of videos that I could launch as "egghead" today?

There are so many variables involved in your question (people, tech, services, etc). Were you thinking of something specific that I could better answer for you?

John Lindquist

John - I guess I saw it as, if someone launched Egghead today would it be more challenging due to the scale of the competition? Or does 2020 and all it has brought present a great opportunity for people looking to launch in this kind of area?

Benjamin Miller

The thing is, we're not "competing" with anyone. We're 100% bootstrapped and have always been playing a long game. We're just doing the best we can with the resources we have and the people we're connected to.

Our success is measured in "Can I wake up each morning and do what I want?" I believe we could replicate that success with the processes and values of egghead today.

Hi Corey, thanks for the thoughtful questions:

1. I deal mostly with the "Instructor" side of things for egghead, so I'll touch on that. Our instructors have full-time jobs and personal lives. They're very busy. We help a lot of people get started on the instructor side of things, but then their lives get busy and we often lose contact with them. We've sunk a lot of time and effort into lessons that never happened.

We overcome this with patience and following-up. Sometimes years later. Instructors have always been grateful for our follow-ups.

1. I just used the Foam Gatsby Starter :D. I'm seriously considering moving to Next.js though as we're rebuilding egghead with Next.js and I'm absolutely loving it.

2. My wife's wedding ring.

Hi Subha, great questions!

• We're currently re-working this entire process based on the concepts of Understanding by Design. We're starting with an internal group at egghead with a few instructors to go as a group through a new process to set this all up. Our goal is to go from "publish what we want" to "research needs and provide materials that lead to maximum success for the subscribers". We've tradionally allowed instructors to publish lessons based on whatever they're using at work, but we'd like to make our content even better for the community and we know we need to do the eductional research to get there.

• For blog posts, I stick to a general "share what I've learned" formula. Sometimes that comes from research someone else's questions. Sometimes it comes from whatever I'm working on.

• Create content ;) But seriously, we have a guide up at howtoegghead.com that walks through our process for creating content.

Thank you John 😊

1. Learner Advocates
2. How to run a community
3. Cohort/club/group learning and how to support it
4. The principles of "Understanding by Design"
5. Our instructor on-boarding process

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