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Introducing CreatorSeries
Most of us are surely familiar with the phrase, “Lost in translation.” But if not, it generally refers to words or concepts that lose their meaning or subtlety when translated from one language to another. The same is also true when “translating” or parsing educational content. I’m instantly reminded of sitting in my ninth grade class, listening to the teacher inform me what Shakespeare intended to convey when he wrote that particular paragraph four hundred years ago. “Here’s what he meant,” she would say. And even at that age, I found myself thinking, “Is this actually what he meant, or is this your best attempt at guessing what he might have maybe, possibly meant? And how often was it the case that he meant nothing of the sort?”
The point is: things get lost the further you travel from the source. I can teach you about Laravel, but no one will ever understand it as deeply as its creator, Taylor Otwell, who wrote those original lines back in 2012. It’s easy to learn what a piece of code does. But it’s far more difficult to grasp why it does so. With that in mind, today, I’m proud to announce a special new category of series here at Laracasts: CreatorSeries. And more often than not - from my experiences - they rarely overlap. But rare does not mean never. The best developers I’ve had the pleasure of knowing are often able to somehow magically do both.
For the last several months, I’ve been searching for those very people, and doing my best to remove whatever roadblocks might be preventing them from teaching you directly. You can probably guess what those roadblocks are. Sometimes, it’s nothing more than a microphone recommendation. In other cases, money is of course the issue. But in most situations, time is the hurdle. “I’d love to do this,” they might say, “but I’m constantly in battle with time.” I won’t tell you that every person I reached out to came through for us. But the ones who did created something special. I can’t wait to share these new CreatorSeries with you. We'll be releasing one per month.
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All Laracasts series are categorized into various //topics. This should provide you with an alternate way to decide what to learn next, whether it be a particular framework, language, or tool.
I’ve kept a somewhat scatter-brained version of the following text as a Laracasts instructor onboarding Trello card for years now, but it occurred to me that it might prove useful to others who hope to create educational content.
Here’s a quiet truth that most small business owners I’m friendly with would surely agree with: when hiring, a certain percentage of job applications are instantly tossed in the trash. It sounds harsh. It is. But it’s also the truth.
