Collaborate Disseminate
There are two reasons to go to school: learn about something and to get a coveted piece of paper that helps you get jobs, or at least, job interviews. With so many schools putting material online, you can do the first part without spending much money as long as you …read more
Not all politicians are lifers, said no politician ever. Until now. It was a mere 12 months ago that I left the political realm after losing a run for the Ohio General Assembly, after serving three years as Mayor of my community. I had spent most of… Continue reading From Politics to Penetration Testing
During the past decade in tech, organizations have been scrambling to find new cybersecurity talent to help combat the growing cyberthreats to businesses. From September 2017 to August 2018, U.S. employers posted nearly 314,000 jobs for cybersecurity … Continue reading How to Start a Career in Cybersecurity
In 1961, FCC Commissioner [Newt Minow] famously described TV as a “vast wasteland.” But TV can do great things; educational programming, news coverage, and great performances do appear, just not all that often. You can draw the same parallels to the Internet. Sure, it’s mostly cat pictures, snarky comments, and posts of what your friends had for dinner. But it can also be a powerful tool, especially for education. Recently, top-name schools and other institutions have posted courses online for everything from Python to Quantum Mechanics to Dutch. The problem is finding these classes and figuring out which ones are …read more
We ran across something interesting on GitHub of all places. The “Open Source Society University” has a list of resources to use if you want to teach yourself computer science for free. We found it interesting because there are so many resources available it can be hard to pick and choose. Of course, you can always pick a track from one school, but it was interesting to see what [Eric Douglas] and contributors thought would be a good foundation.
If you dig down, there are really a few potential benefits from going to college. One is you might learn something …read more
