3. A retreat - a place to learn, try things out, make
things
Away from commercial and everyday pressure
Time to immerse in a project or two
Community of peers
What is it?
4. How does it work?
1 week intensive hacking
Max 12 in the group
In the future, hopefully we'll run them for 3
months
5. Think about what you want to achieve
Set yourself some clear goals and outcomes
e.g. complete SICP, learn Scala, add a
feature to Django
discovering and exploring can work too
How do you get the most out of it?
6. Be driven
- have personal reasons for wanting to do this
- expect it to be quite intense
It's fun, but not for fun
- aim to make "step change" breakthroughs
that you can't reach in everyday life
How do you get the most out of it?
7. How do you get the most out of it?
Be prepared to share and learn
It's social
- the people make the experience
Expect friendly social pressure
- encourage each other to complete & ship
projects
8. NOT for commercial work
(that's for co-working spaces)
bring things you can fail and explore on
NOT a startup bootcamp
(there are plenty of those)
don't aim for commercial success, aim for
personal growth
Who's it NOT for?
9. Who's it NOT for?
NOT an individual retreat
be open to sharing, and being challenged
NOT a taught course
self-directed. set your own agenda
NOT for complete beginners
(there are other places to learn to code)
