Ben Werdmuller

Tag: learning to code

  • Should everyone learn to code?

    I posted this the other day, blissfully unaware of how contentious it would be: “Learning to code is non-optional in the 21st century.” It’s a piece of hyperbole, of course; learning to code is perfectly optional. Nobody’s pointing a gun at your head and forcing you to do it. But here’s what many of my […]

  • Recipes for startup failure

    Paul Graham’s essay, How to Get Startup Ideas, is long but very much worth reading. Normally I’d pull a quote, but it’s a valuable piece from start to finish, and it’s hard to know what to choose. Go read it, then come back. He makes clear that, more than anything else, if you want to […]