Chuck Grimmett

Compound Your Career Opportunities

You’ve probably heard about the miracle of compound interest, one of the most powerful forces in investment that exponentially grows your returns. For example, investing $5000 a year from 25 to 35 yields more …

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Portfolio Project Ideas with Python

So, you are learning Python and want to build a portfolio that helps you land your first technical job at a company. You’ll want to show that: You know how to problem solve You …

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10 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand

College degrees don’t send the signals they once used to. You have to take charge of building your personal brand and work out loud instead. Here are ten ways to build your brand. 1. …

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How to Leave Your Job

So you have a job offer from another company and are ready to leave your existing role. You want to leave without burning the social capital you’ve built up over time. What do you …

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12 Tips for New Managers

Praxis alumni Nate Baker and Nick Rundlett both became new managers this month. Congrats, guys! Nate asked the community for tips on how to be a good supervisor. Here is what our advisors and alumni had to say.

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16 Books That Shaped How I Interact with the World

Yesterday my friend Derek Magill asked the Praxis community, “What books have had the most impact on your career/education?” I love this question. Notice the use of the word impact. He isn’t asking for …

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How to Get Your GitHub Profile Ready For Job Applications

If you are going out for a development job or any sort of technical job, especially if you don’t have a lot of professional experience in the field, the best thing you can do …

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How to Get Work Done: A Primer

Here are the three pillars of getting work done. If you are having trouble with staying on top of your work, chances are that it comes back to one of these three main areas. …

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Three Recent Participant Projects I Love

Only two things matter in the market: The ability to create value for others. The ability to persuade others of your value creation potential. We teach both of these things at Praxis via projects. …

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Compared to What?

One of our favorite questions around the Praxis office is Compared to what?. People often compare actual things with imagined, perfect, idealized alternatives. This is called the Nirvana Fallacy. This creates a false dichotomy …

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Free Charting Tools for Your Next Article

One of the key elements of the Praxis curriculum is that we push participants to create. Over the course of they bootcamp, they create multiple portfolio projects to showcase their skills, write every day …

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Guidelines for Putting Your Projects on Display

We emphasize the importance of working out loud throughout our curriculum. Each of our participants make portfolio sections on their websites where they collect projects they’ve built. How you package and present your projects …

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Turn Your Defeat Into a Growth Story

Here is a question I came across last week on Reddit: I was recently fired from a part-time bookkeeping job and replaced by someone with more experience who can do the job faster than …

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10 Steps to Becoming a Manager

I recently saw this question on Reddit: I recently graduated with a degree in business management, but I’m having a hard time finding a management job. I’m not getting any interviews because I have …

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How can I come up with more ideas?

We received a question from an Office Hours listener: “When someone gives me a good idea, I’m great at executing on it, but I’m not good at being the guy who comes up with …

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