P.S. I'm surprised that pg's site does not use https. P.P.S. Why is pg never listed on a billionaires list (or a Midas list)? P.P.P.S. In his Feb 2021 essay "What I Worked On," pg says he was rejected by the MIT AI grad program. It's impossible to overstate how important this event is in startup/world history. At that time the MIT AI lab was the best AI lab in the the world by a huge margin so pg would've probably been sucked into a third-rate research job.
Goal: Be able to get an entry level job (~$75K in San Francisco). Do comment on the feasibility of this goal.
Background: - Strong Computer Science background with advanced degrees but I went to school when there were green screens, and I have not written a line of production code in ~20 years. - I have 10-20 hours per week.
Preferences: - I find that instructor-led programs are too slow and I get bored; hence, a self study program. - I want something with massive amounts of feedback. The best I've found is Udacity for software development and Dataquest.io for data science. Haven't found anything for blockchain.
Biases: This is not hard. It can't be hard when a non-STEM major can go to a data science bootcamp (like Flatiron) and have an 85% chance of getting a $75K job. Hard is winning the Best Paper Award at NIPS.
Response to "if you could self study, you wouldn't need to ask this question" and similar: Thank you for your input.
Massage not so much.
How would you spend $10K marketing this business consulting business?