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Luke Thomas

Luke Thomas

I'm a Mainer in technology who likes growing internet companies and sharing stories about what I learn along the way. Also reading, soccer, and experimenting.

Learning to Program, Learning to Slow Down

I’ve been trying to teach myself programming for over a year – I’ve learned how to write code, but I’ve also learned about my tendencies as an individual. I enjoy marketing, so programming isn’t something that comes easy for me (yet). Over the past week, I realized

The Best Marketers are Humble

> A modest or low view of one’s own importance; humbleness I’ve been thinking recently about what characteristics separate an average marketer from a greatmarketer. It seems like great marketers have superhuman tendencies; they somehow understand EXACTLY what the customer wants. What I’ve realized is that the

In Search of Actionable Marketing Tutorials

Everyday I’m on a hunt for a great, practical article. I’m the type of person who loves reading, and then turning around and applying what I’ve learned. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to teach myself how to program [http://lukethomas.com/thoughts-while-learning-ruby-on-rails/], and there’

The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story

There’s nothing more upsetting than knowing that you are being taken advantage of. I have four classes until I graduate college, and every semester the same thing happens time and time again. I’m required to spend hundreds of dollars on the latest college textbooks and three months later

Ed-Tech Platforms Need Improvement

It’s been about 6-8 months since the big PR launch of online learning platforms like Udacity [http://www.udacity.com], Coursera [https://www.coursera.org/], and edX [https://www.edx.org/](well, actually edX was launched recently), yet I still haven’t completed my first class. I signed up

The $100 Dollar Ikea Stand-Up Desk

Over the course of the day, I spent way too much time sitting. I’ve been looking for a standup desk for a while, yet I don’t have the budget for a Geek desk [http://www.geekdesk.com/]. A couple weeks ago I was reading an article from Boundless

The College Education I wish I had

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m pretty disappointed with the majority of my college classes [http://lukethomas.com/looking-back-is-college-worth-it/] over the past few years. I’ve spent quite a bit of time working on creating a sample curriculum that I wish I had in college; after all,