Aaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos, podcasts and more. Notably he was a founding member of the Hammerstone team, which he’s recently left, to focus his energy on doing something he loves. Most recently, Aaron has launched Screencasting.com, a course teaching you how to make better screencasts.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
01:25 Aaron's Background
02:10 Learning Software Engineering through books
03:24 Audience Building
05:51 Benefits of each content medium
08:07 Making time for everything
09:27 Having a full time job
10:23 Leaving Hammerstone
12:36 Launching Screencasting.com
14:33 How has the launch gone?
15:25 Recommendations

Recommendations

Book - Any textbook in your field
Podcast - No Plans to Merge
Indie Hacker - Jordan O’Connor

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Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis

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Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis