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If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to these days, I have some compelling news to share about my company, LearnBoost
I’m excited to announce that my company has raised a seed round of $975K from several leading angels and venture capital firms. Our VC’s are Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Atlas Ventures. Our angels include Naval Ravikant, Bill Lee, James Hong, Othman Laraki, Karl Jacob, and several other fantastic angels. We’re thrilled this entire group of investors share LearnBoost’s vision for developing free and amazing software for schools.
Devthought has made it to the finalists of the WPWebHost competition.
You’ll find it listed under the “Modern and Elegant” category, where Devthought has some strong competition. You might want to check out the other categories, and visit the other contestants’ beautiful websites.
Please vote and spread the love!
I’m signing up for this WordPress design competetion, organized by the guys over at WPWebHost team. Only WordPress-powered sites are elegible, and there are 5 categories with 10 featured sites and 1 winner each.
The winners will be decided by the public, so it’ll be nice if you cast your vote for your all-time favorite Devthought! As for the prizes, winners will get a badge, $200 cash via Paypal, and excellent life-time hosting (which I’d love).
I’m signing up for the Best Modern and Elegant category, which probably also means some strong competition 
One of the basic pillars of the study of human psychology is the analysis of the subconscious and conscious mind. Sigmund Freud was one of the first to clearly identify and characterize the ‘areas’ where our psychic energy flows. During the first part of his notable life he stated that these were the ‘subconscious’, ‘preconscious’ and ‘conscious’ mind.
If we wanted to get an idea of how each of them is involved in our ideas, feelings, thoughts, decisions and motivation (which are key in our daily and professional lives), we should picture ourselves as an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg, the only part we see from the surface, is the conscious mind. It’s logical, organized, and we can control it, but still small. The vast and voluminous underlying mass is the unconscious mind. It’s disorganized, illogical, irrational, but defining in how we act.
Modern psychology has attempted to classify how good we are at a certain skill by observing how deep it perforates that iceberg. It thus describes four stages of competence an individual can achieve. In this article I’ll try to apply this simple scheme to the skill we practice everyday: programming.
