tldr; we are community people who have already been doing this in our free time
When you sign up for our bootcamp, you’re really signing up for us: Andrew and Jake.
We will be your guide, your instructors, your role models, and, hopefully, your friends.
So why learn from us? Well allow our backgrounds to explain:
Andrew Rose (twitter, github)
Andrew is the culture and community side of the bootcamp.
He has a track record of building communities with an exceptional density of playfulness, curiosity, and ambition — especially Fractal and Fractal University. In his free time, he likes to research what makes historically great groups special. (playful trust + no bullshit.)
Earlier in his career, he built car-free cities at Culdesac, and he was interim-principal of a Montessori school.
Andrew’s mission is to create a Golden Age of optimism, creativity, technology, art, politics, and culture in New York City. This starts with a definite optimism that code will be instrumental to the flourishing of artists, technologists, and visionaries. Hence, bootcamp.
Many things regarded by conventional wisdom as very low probability happen when a relatively tiny number of able people decide to change something — Dominick Cummings
At its early stage, any new paradigm will be represented by a network of seed institutions. Like biological seeds, what matters with these seed institutions is not their initial scale. Rather, what matters is that they are operating on and developing a genuinely better paradigm, and that they can survive and grow as the society around them falters and even becomes hostile to growth. — A New Golden Age of Governance, Palladium Mag
Jake Zegil (github)
Jake is the systems architecture, project management, and engineering side of the bootcamp.
We’re both software engineers, but Jake truly embodies the ethos of the 10x engineer. The man works smarter and harder — as Director of Engineering in 2023, he shipped 4,731 contributions, while managing multiple teams, onboarding and training 4 engineers, and interviewing more than 400 candidates.
How does he do it all? The same structure and systems engineering we will teach you.
Jake was self-taught, but developed a bootcamp system for his brother and childhood friends from North Carolina. He convinced them to drop out and become software engineers by following this program, now they make $150k and $110k respectively, and have time to build their own projects on the side. They hope to become founders.
All those with the potential to blossom forth must do so — Lee Kuan Yew