The Future of CoinTalk

Continue to write the course and any other you can think of. We are all on this forum to share. Even if CTU fails, sharing good information is a noble pursuit.

 

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Just about everything I do these days tends to fail. I go way over my head too often. I need to fix that.

Sorry for disappointing everyone who had signed up.

 

"I suppose you are all right. however I do have 18 people that have signed up for this course. I do not want to disappoint them. Now I am unsure of what to do."

Ask them if they might want to help plan a curriculum based on their interests and desire to accomplish in your plan. Some may help.

 

Josh. First I like that you are reaching out not standing still. You have to take risks in life to get ahead and I see you doing this. I really like and respect that. However I think the problem is that you are most likely not in possession of a university degree yet are talking of opening your own university. I have been using this site for less then a year but have found there are some really knowledgable people on this site. I think some of them are taking exception to this particular risk you are taking because they have literally been collecting or dealing coins longer then you have been alive, some even double that. There are few fields in which a 19 year old is prepared and knowledgable enough to start teaching. I was considered young at 29 when I started teaching on the side ( not coin related).

I'm not here to make you feel bad. Like I said I'm impressed that you are trying. My advice is to start smaller.instead of a university just focus only on creating your first 1 hour coins 101 lecture. Take your time and get it done right. You like history I would include the concept of how tpg has changed the whole industry. But whatever you want to talk about spend a lot of time getting this one lecture done well. From there make your second lecture. After a year you might have 4-5 really solid lectures/online classes. This is a project that you will likely get little help on so be understanding to the fact that this is most likely going to be 90% or more you and you alone.

This is going to be the journey of a thousand miles. I want you to take the first step but I also want you to be wearing comfortable shoes so you can survive the march. And if it means anything to you I had a significant amount of negativity in my field that I had to overcome. Trust yourself and always follow your heart.

 

I've signed up for Josh's course and hope to take the first one. I applaud his enthusiasm and hope he leads our hobby into the second half of this century. I'm sure that I'll learn something even though I've been collecting and learning about coins for 50 years. I've been asked to teach courses in the past because someone thought I was an expert. Recently, I gave a a bunch of fellow engineers a course on spray drying. I'm quite knowledgable in spray drying but I found that I knew far less than I thought when I was developing the curriculum. I learned more from the preparation for teaching that course than I think I've learned from the school of hard knocks over the years. I listen to Mike and Matt talk about coins on their radio show. They do know coins but I can tell that they've prepared for their show by researching their topic using available books and internet articles. Sometimes, I know the exact reference that they are using. You can tell that they have really prepared for their show by researching the topic. If Josh uses a similar approcah, I'm sure that he'll teach himself and us something.

 

You don't want to disappoint 18 students, but you are ok with asking "professors" to donate their time, a scale of which could be years...

I think you missed Mikes most important point about being the boss - you need to be capable of all of the lower positions before you can organize and instruct them how to do their job.

 

Now I did not miss that point he had made. I swallowed and digested everything he had said there.

If I am to do this I suppose I shall do it alone. However now I am thinking of just doing what Lehigh recommended

 

Please stop kicking the puppy. You made your point long ago. Let the kid dream. Without dreamers we would still be living in caves marveling over fire.

And FYI I volunteer teaching at a university as a professor. I don't know enough about coins to help josh here but if I could I would help him out as well.

 

It's not kicking a puppy. I just think anyone who coddles him and doesn't speak the truth regarding the logistics, planning, knowledge, etc, is doing him, and all of his students, a disservice. I don't understand how when people come onto a forum and get feedback, and it isn't all flowers and butterflies how people immediately flock to their "aid" and acusse the speaker of truth as being abusive. There was no cursing, no name calling, nothing of the sort.

 

joined

 

Better than Open Office is Kingsoft, a Chinese rip-off of Office that works really well and the basic version is free. Google it

 

Anything I can do to help!!! */*
Please send link.
4/13 was the first day seen post . Now there five pages So please send link.

 

requested to join!

 

Look like I am #14 got lucky I guess ?
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I wouldn't go anywhere near any software from China. Just sayin'.

 

I second that. I do not buy nor use anything from china.

 

It's kicking the puppy after 5 pages, not 5 posts. I think everyone including josh is very clear on your opinion. I'm not flocking to anyone's aid. I just don't like watching someone continue to throw puppies into the wood chipper. We all got your point after 4 pages of this .

 

Do you live in a cave, make you own clothes, tools, and live solely off the land?

 

And you really think you are not using software from China? Good luck. I recently got a new computer and was not looking forward to buying Office again so I checked out the alternatives. All of them are kind of buggy. If Open Office is so great, why did they make Libre Office? Read some reviews, I have been using Kingsoft for 5-6 months now and it really does work.

 

I try and avoid foodstuff from China, but a friend of mine pointed out that even food made in the USA contains ingredients "Made In China"