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Nick Winter
Founder/hacker at CodeCombat and Skritter. Wrote a book on motivation hacking.
Founder/hacker at CodeCombat and Skritter. Wrote a book on motivation hacking.
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Founder, CEO
We founded CodeCombat to give learners the feeling of wizardly power at their fingertips by using typed code and real programming languages. It's like having a conversation... more instead of reading a manual. We want to bring that conversation to every school and to every student, because everyone should have the chance to learn computer science. From the first line of code to the thousands of schools and millions of students reached, I've had the opportunity to oversee both the game and the business.
Skritter
Founder, CTO
What if you could remember 95% of all the characters you ever learned? With Skritter, I developed a Chinese-specific spaced-repetition learning algorithm and a stroke-level... more handwriting recognition system to make Chinese as easy as Spanish.
My cofounders and I grew Skritter to the #1 app for learning Chinese and Japanese characters. We then handed it off to the current team, under whose guidance it continues to grow while we use the lessons we learned teaching Chinese to teach computer science.
My cofounders and I grew Skritter to the #1 app for learning Chinese and Japanese characters. We then handed it off to the current team, under whose guidance it continues to grow while we use the lessons we learned teaching Chinese to teach computer science.
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Projects
Measure your cognitive performance.
Developer · The state of the art in measuring cognitive performance, Quantified Mind is a web-based tool for running experiments on what affects your brain.
I wrote a book on how to hack your motivation
Author · “Moderation in all things,” they say. That may keep a society together, but it’s not the protagonist’s job.
Wrote this book in three… · More months while simultaneously attempting seventeen other missions. How? By hacking motivation.
The Motivation Hacker shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. From precommitment to rejection therapy, this is your field guide to getting yourself to want to do everything you always wanted to want to do.
Wrote this book in three… · More months while simultaneously attempting seventeen other missions. How? By hacking motivation.
The Motivation Hacker shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. From precommitment to rejection therapy, this is your field guide to getting yourself to want to do everything you always wanted to want to do.
A happy Mac keylogger for Quantified Self purposes.
Developer · A personal computer analytics dashboard for Quantified Self purposes, Telepath Logger also can produce time-lapse videos of a concept… · More called the "maniac week", where you ignore all distractions, fight no fires, and just work as efficiently and hard as you can for a week. See the time-lapse video: "The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qlr22cF14, or check out the blog for more details at http://blog.nickwinter.net/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding-time-lapse
Multiplayer programming game for learning to code
Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners. Learn Python or JavaScript as you defeat ogres, solve mazes, and level up. Open… · More source HTML5 game!
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In addition to cofounding my startups, I also wrote a book called The Motivation Hacker, which explores the science of motivation and offers techniques for getting yourself to want to want to do all the things you've always wanted to want to do.
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