Pausing mini retreats - Blog - Recurse Center
We won't be running mini retreats after March 2022.| Recurse Center
We won't be running mini retreats after March 2022.| Recurse Center
Everyone who’s ever done something great has at least two things in common: they started, and they didn’t quit when things got hard. This goes for any kind of work, including programming. If you want to build something great, you will also need to do those things. This sounds simple, but it’s far from easy. What keeps people from starting? There are many reasons, but the biggest are not having an idea, not having time, and not believing they can do it. Attending RC gives you time: For t...| The Recurse Center Blog
As of July 18, 2023, our Brooklyn hub is open to Recursers for the foreseeable future! You can attend your retreat at our Brooklyn hub, online, or any combination of the two. We’re excited to announce that from June 26th - September 15th, we’ll be reopening our hub at 397 Bridge in Brooklyn so that you can drop in and spend as much or little of your retreat time there as you’d like. That means that if you attend a batch happening during those dates, you’ll have the option to do your r...| The Recurse Center Blog
What do you do when you want to explore new areas of programming and deepen your knowledge, but your job takes up most of your time and energy? After working as a programmer for a decade – including stints as the first engineering hire at a startup and later as a Team Lead at Stripe – David Balatero decided to take a break to explore his music and programming interests. He wanted to take advantage of the first break he’d had in a while to dig deeper into CS concepts, as well as to build...| The Recurse Center Blog
How do you participate in RC when you’re in Australia? It’s not easy, and different Recursers have taken different approaches to it. Sam Uong lives in Melbourne and started his batch at RC in January. We spoke about halfway through his batch about what he’s working on, and how he’s shaped his days to collaborate with other Recursers as much as possible. (as told to Sydney by Sam) 2:45 am: Before I joined RC, I committed to being awake during core hours, which start at 11am New York ti...| The Recurse Center Blog
How do I participate in RC from a non-American timezone? This is a really common question, and the answer is: everyone approaches it a little differently. Patricia Boh lives in Paris and finished her batch at RC in early February 2023. Patricia had been working as a programmer for over a decade when she came to RC as part of a sabbatical to work on a UI component library. She spoke with me about what her typical days were like, how she used the structure of RC to support her goals, and her ad...| The Recurse Center Blog
Our mission at the Recurse Center is to transform lives by helping people direct themselves. Becoming a better programmer is the shared purpose that structures the retreat at RC, but the idea of self-direction is broadly applicable to many pursuits in life. It’s about where your motivations come from: directing yourself means doing things that are motivated by your joy and curiosity, instead of by external pressures and fear. It’s also really hard to do. Most of us have years of condition...| The Recurse Center Blog
Having established that you don’t need to abscond to a faraway beach to take a break to explore your interests, you might wonder: Who really comes to RC on a sabbatical? What do they do when they’re here? And, what happens after: how do you keep growing when you already have years of experience under your belt? I spoke with two alums who came to RC for a professional break about what they wanted out of RC, how their batch actually unfolded, and the impact it’s had on their lives since t...| The Recurse Center Blog
The word “sabbatical” often evokes either a professor deep in a distant dusty archive or someone relaxing on a beautiful beach. But while in theory you could throw your phone in the trash, get bangs, and move to Bali, most of us can’t just walk away from our lives. Dropping everything to do self-exploration isn’t realistic, affordable, or even attractive to most people, but you don’t need to sever ties or renounce society to take a sabbatical. You don’t even necessarily have to le...| The Recurse Center Blog
In addition to the amazing amount of programming that I learned from people in this atmosphere of curiosity and passion, this desire to learn and this inquisitiveness was ignited in me in a way that it never had been before.| Recurse Center
This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC.| Recurse Center
The core of the Recurse Center is the community, and the core of our online community is Zulip, the open source real-time chat system.| Recurse Center
