Environments for Rapid Learning
Neil explores the patterns and principles that create environments for flourishing learners.
Culture
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Unhappy Yuppies, Dirty Jobs, and Web Workers
In an internet sea of crap and kittens, a couple nuggets of truth have floated to the surface recently for young people entering the work force.
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Confessions of a Designer Developer
Coming from a design background can be a great asset to a developer, but the journey to build developer chops isn’t easy. Philip confesses some bad practices, misconceptions, and failures from his journey.
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Motivation: Getting There
There’s a reason behind all things that we humans do. So why is it so hard sometimes to do the things we need to do? Marshall shares how he gets motivated.
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Leveling Up
Any sufficiently advanced, un-understood technology is no different than magic. Rob discusses the importance of leveling up customers at a pace they can maintain and leaving clients better off from your working together.
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Confessions of a Sparkbox Apprentice
What it’s really like to be a Sparkbox apprentice—minus the nerf guns.
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Everybody Answers: Crunch-Time Coping Techniques
Crunch-time scenarios are a fact of life. It doesn’t matter how well you plan. So you’d better come up with ways to cope or learn to enjoy the fetal position. The team shares how we each get through those long days and nights.
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Why We Apprentice
An apprenticeship is drastically different from learning methods used in most of modern Western culture. Drew explains the practical, important reasons we believe in apprenticeships and how they allow us to grow talent—not just consume it.
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Meet Our New Space
You might have noticed we’ve gotten bigger. Now our office has too!
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The Making of Threeve
We, the 2013 Sparkbox Apprentices, have built Threeve: an app to help you track your Jeopardy score, share your total, and finally achieve the acclaim you so rightfully deserve. All in a beautifully designed and written responsive Ruby and Rails web app.
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Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development