James Somers

James Somers is a developer at Pivotal Labs. Find him online at jsomers.net.

Learning About Work Ethic From My High School Driving Instructor

Learning About Work Ethic From My High School Driving Instructor

Bob of the Easy Method Driving School has spent his entire life teaching his students how to drive -- and there's nothing he loves to do more More »

Composition 1.01: How Email Can Change the Way Professors Teach

Composition 1.01: How Email Can Change the Way Professors Teach

Why email is the perfect way to teach writing More »

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

Colin Hughes' programming website, Project Euler, provides a plan for how to learn anything in fun, discrete steps More »

On the Floor Laughing: Traders Are Having a New Kind of Fun

On the Floor Laughing: Traders Are Having a New Kind of Fun

Wall Street twentysomethings are playing the most sophisticated, dynamic, immersive game in the world. Here's how it works -- and why your job might soon turn into a massive multiplayer experience. More »

Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think

Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think

When we use modern technology, we're lucky to be standing on abstractions of giants More »

The Simple Software That Could—but Probably Won't—Change the Face of Writing

The Simple Software That Could—but Probably Won't—Change the Face of Writing

What's it like to write with software that records every one of your keystrokes? More »

The Computer in the Basement: Learning to Code, Then and Now

The Computer in the Basement: Learning to Code, Then and Now

Better access to computational power is radically expanding who can learn to program More »

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