In the podcast’s sixth episode, I speak with Schalk Venter. In our far-reaching conversation, we talk about ending up in tech by accident without a formal background. Civic tech and doing good using tech where it makes sense. We ask hard questions, such as how we solve real-world problems using a combination of community and technology. The importance of abstract thinking and a problems solving mindset, the role of open source in education, and being honest about being human. We also discuss the future value of creating more new content or curating and creating learning paths using all the existing great content.

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Transcripts of the episode are available on GitHub.

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Links

  • Codex
  • Codebridge
  • Codespace
  • Code for Cape Town
  • Bloom Institute of Technology
  • Founders and Coders
  • We Think Code
  • FourthRev
  • MDN Web Docs
  • freeCodeCamp
  • GitHub
  • The Odin Project
  • FEDSA
  • ZA Product Design
  • The Google Foundation
  • What is civic tech?
  • What is Agile?
  • What is blockchain?
  • What is AI?
  • What is extreme programming?
  • What is imposter syndrome?
  • Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • What are cloud functions?
  • Mozilla Manifesto
  • Schalk Neethling on Medium
  • Wondermind
  • Third World Problems project