I’m still in the ear
[2023-08-11 02:01:07 PM] : I’m still in the early days of my work towards doing safari for “programming course authors,” and one issue for me is that it’s been hard to find good watering holes.
There were some I documented early on, but they turned out to be way more focused on the specific technical pains of specific platforms and not more on the larger issues.
One good source I found was a podcast: https://badass.dev/podcast/course-builders, and so today (after causally listening to many episodes, I’m sitting here, re-listening, scanning the transcript, and taking safari notes. It feels a little off from what the 30x500 course teaches since it is not as wide of a variety of participants, but I do think the content is solid.
My only other share for today is that Safari is still a skill I am not great at. Trying to just go with the flow and know that it takes time and practice. I am very hungry to find some fuel for my future ebombs and get my blog moving with some regular cadence.
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[2023-08-11 03:00:24 PM] : great call using safari to sift through the podcast transcripts!
as you start to pick up on the jargon and terms used to describe their pain, you can start plugging those terms back into various search boxes to find more discussions that might not turn up when searching for "course creators" just because they're happening within other watering holes.
[2023-08-11 03:01:19 PM] : another angle here is searching the internet for the people/usernames these influential course creators are, and look at the comments/replies that people leave for them
[2023-08-11 03:33:15 PM] : fwiw I just read this from David Spinks about community building, and those sorts of “specific technical pains” I think are evidence of a very high quality watering hole https://davidspinks.substack.com/p/find-the-turpentine
[2023-08-11 03:40:47 PM] : that's a very good point! Mike Zornek if you have any watering hole links that seemed lower quality to you, I'd be happy to share some analysis and suggestions :smile:
[2023-08-11 04:07:31 PM] : Haha interesting you picked this podcast. I was one of the people interviewed on it (that's me with the black hair in the preview image) and wasn't Joel one of the OG 30x500 students, alex?
[2023-08-11 04:14:50 PM] : yep Joel's from an early class!
[2023-08-11 06:58:36 PM] : vcarl I’m not giving up on the platform-specific customer support waterholes entirely. I likely will go back for more research; it’s just most of the deeper discussions were so detailed about performing editing tasks (or just complaining about the ghost town that is Teachable support) that I wasn’t able to extract much platform-neutral content (with my first pass).
alex Thanks for the offer. Will keep it in mind.