I normally like to give away the punchline right upfront. But I’m going to take a page out of TK’s playbook and build some suspense with some setup. For the past 6 years as CEO of this company, I have done everything I know how to make Praxis the greatest experience in the world. We…
Praxis Media Associate We create a lot of audio and video content at Praxis. So much that we need someone whose full time job is to make it awesome! The PMA would shoot/edit/publish Praxis Daily videos on YouTube every morning, edit and post our weekly podcasts, produce and edit our curriculum videos, and produce and…
After contemplating and discussing with the Praxis team, I jotted down some of the big things we’ve learned now that we’re five years in to this great adventure: Our customers are heroes. I can’t emphasize this enough. Few appreciate just how awesome the young people we get to work with are. They are courageous enough…
WARNING: The Praxis program is not for everyone. People who are unmotivated, lazy, or may become lazy should not take on Praxis. If you suffer from a deep need to be seen as prestigious rather than to be productive, you should not attempt the program. Praxis is for those with individual, intrinsic goals, not…
“Software is eating the world.” — Marc Andreessen There are several factors that make tech startups the most exciting companies on the planet right now. Dramatically reduced cost of starting one, due to cloud computing. Penetration of software into every corner of every industry. Borderlessness. Instant, global reach. Near-infinite scalability. Explosion of venture capital and…
“Employers want degrees.” There are so many problems with this popular idea. It lacks imagination, ignores the things employers really want that a degree is sometimes a proxy for, and forgets that divergence from the crowd is more likely to make you stand out than sameness. But it’s worse than that. It’s misleading even as…
The more action you want to take, the more solutions you want to gain, the more you want to achieve, the more problems you’ve gotta have. Problems lead to questions, questions lead to discovery, discovery leads to progress.
You’re young, hungry, and want to jump-start your career. You don’t have much experience outside of classrooms, but you know you’ll need more than some grades and government paper to succeed in the marketplace. Awesome. Here are a few very simple things you can do right now – today in fact! – in less than…
Desperately clinging to your beer and the last vestiges of the weekend, you refuse to give in to Monday stress on Sunday night. Still, it’s in the back of your mind putting a subtle damper on your evening. The next morning, as you clear the cobwebs and crank up the brain for work, everyone can…
There’s a popular idea that the only people good enough to succeed without college are Steve Jobs level geniuses. This video makes that case that you’re not good enough to opt-out by presenting various statistics and averages of aggregates. I pointed out a few of the logical fallacies in that kind of argument here. The…
You tell me you want to be an athlete. I say, “Awesome! What sport?” You tell me you don’t know yet. I say, “That’s cool. I get it. A lot of athletes play multiple sports, experiment, switch sports, and settle where the returns to their skill are highest. College football stars have ended up playing…
Most of us don’t actually fear failure. Millions of people play the lottery, knowing they’ll almost surely fail. People play sports, where one team is guaranteed to lose. I’ve even happily joined teams I knew were bad, and likely to fail almost every week. Young people wander through college for years and tens of thousands,…
I’m not big on goals and goal-setting. I’ve done it at various points, and it’s had a few positive effects and can be somewhat fun, or at least useful in challenging me to think bigger. Still, I find that I’m more of an opportunist than a planner. I prefer to keep building things – myself,…
Meet our new CTO, Chuck Grimmett! Chuck has been advising Praxis participants and helping the team with tech problems for a few years now, and taking our curriculum and tech to the next level meant we had to get him on the team full time. Chuck is a polymath, and among his many talents are…
Depends what you want to do with art. Praxis will help you build a personal brand, professional hard and soft skills, and a body of work through the bootcamp and curriculum. We will help you push yourself to break through obstacles that inhibit your growth through coaching. You’ll build a powerful set of mindsets and…