# Notes from Lunch with Jeremy

* Primary realization: we have not been spending enough time actually doing the
  change we care about.
  * Instead, we have been trying to set up the right systems to enable that
    change to happen.
    * This doesn't translate because we're dumb and can't predict well.
      * Instead, we should ship to our customers to advance our key metric
        * The defined key metric and customers do not have to be perfect and we
          can iterate on them.
* Keep the goal of the club uniform
  * Coding is the vehicle of innovation that we are promoting
* We are spending too much time focusing on semantics.
  * May or may not be bad, but that bad thing is that we're spending too much
    time.
* Externally, be very specific with the actionable what.
  * Philosophy is not one of these things
* Parallel universe theory
  * In a parellel universe, if I did another thing, which universe would turn
    out better?
* Questions to investigate
  * Why do clubs fizzle?
    * Some clubs die off and are started by other students later.
      * The past leader left
    * The organizer doesn't feel ownership.
      * The club stops meeting
      * Members stop feeling engaged
      * Organizer doesn't care
* Create a club in a box because students are busy
  * How do we make things so easy for the club organizer to do (like starting
    off new programmers), while still having the organizer feel ownership
* Down the road
  * Is AP CS a variable deciding whether or not to work at a school
* Major major major blocking problem
  * Jeremy has never seen a program that successfully takes people with no
    coding experience (and not self teachers already) to having 25% of them
    building projects outside of class
* Have guided projects for beginners
  * Have a really fucking clear guide so they can reference it later when
    they're building their own project
  * Hypothesis: have people build really great guides
  * Copying and pasting old code is a great learning tool

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