Yohei Nakajima

Month: July 2013

  • The 7 Questions That Tell You Who You Are

    I like the 7 questions posed on this Thought Catalogue article titled The 7 Questions That Tell You Who You Are. I know my answers to these questions may have been different a year ago, and may be different a year from now. That doesn’t mean that answering these questions isn’t a good exercise. It’s […]

  • In & Over My Head

    I’m about to sit in on a Coloft Academy class called Elasticsearch, An Introduction. As it’s title suggests, it’s a class that introduces you to Elasticsearch, a “flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud.” Long story short, I’m pretty lost already. Other students of this class include the […]

  • Developing a Curriculum for Entrepreneurship

    This Summer, I have the honor of teaching an accelerator program for the Santa Monica Youth Tech Program. 14 hand picked high-school students will split up into teams and work on two civic tech startup ideas out of Coloft, 5 days a week for 5 weeks. Two hours each day, their minds are mine to […]

  • Life Is Beautiful

    Early Morning: 15 minutes of yoga, 20 minute bike ride, made & ate breakfast (omelet & banana)! I was looking at my new year’s resolutions yesterday and realized that some simple activities would tackle multiple resolutions. For example, “stress less about small things” and “maintain an awesome body” (read: work out more) can be knocked out […]

  • Santa Monica Youth Tech Academy: Day 1 of Week 2

    I know this is kind of jumping ahead because I didn’t document anything from the first week of the 5-week Santa Monica Youth Tech Program that I’m teaching this summer. But as part of today’s exercise, we had all the students type non-stop for 5 minutes. This was what I wrote up. We had an awesome […]