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Also, why did Kent C Dodds leave a while ago? I mean, not the official story, but the actual one? He became a co-founder and left within a year...

qudat 4y ago
My guess is there's way more money in his educational endeavors
- lirbank 4y ago
  That implies he considered Remix a failure and left. Interesting.
  - utahthrowaway28 4y ago
    I doubt it. Honestly I suspect he saw more money in building content that he owned 100% based on his personal brand, whereas contributing to a project that he only owned a fraction of wasn’t up his alley.
    - lirbank 4y ago
      He is a co-founder so I would believe he had more than a fraction of (unvested) stonks. A co-founder that left within a year, and prolly dropped all his shares (cliff, again my assumption).
utahthrowaway28 4y ago
I don’t know the exact details of why he left, but I can say that a lot of us were surprised and confused when he joined Remix. The other Remix founders have great reputations everywhere they’ve worked, but Kent has kind of developed into a personality cult over the years. His courses and personal brand have no doubt been very profitable for him, so I’m not too surprised to see him go back toward personal brand building and trying to increase the reach of his courses. I have a lot of respect for education initiatives and efforts to create educational content, but I’ve also had to do a lot of “deprogramming” of juniors who consumed a lot of Kent C Dodds material and end up trying to overengineer everything. He also had an expensive React testing course a couple years ago that was really disappointing, which burned a lot of goodwill among the community.
- hitekker 4y ago
  The comments of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28818829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28818829 touches on the concerns you've raised.
- culi 4y ago
  What are some of the most common practices you've had to "deprogram"? Curious
meowtimemania 4y ago
I noticed some negative reactions whenever Kent would publish content about Remix. I wonder if Kent+other Remix founders felt since reaction to Kent was at times negative, it'd be best for Kent to keep doing his own thing.

qudat 4y ago

My guess is there's way more money in his educational endeavors

lirbank 4y ago
That implies he considered Remix a failure and left. Interesting.
- utahthrowaway28 4y ago
  I doubt it. Honestly I suspect he saw more money in building content that he owned 100% based on his personal brand, whereas contributing to a project that he only owned a fraction of wasn’t up his alley.
  - lirbank 4y ago
    He is a co-founder so I would believe he had more than a fraction of (unvested) stonks. A co-founder that left within a year, and prolly dropped all his shares (cliff, again my assumption).

utahthrowaway28 4y ago

I don’t know the exact details of why he left, but I can say that a lot of us were surprised and confused when he joined Remix. The other Remix founders have great reputations everywhere they’ve worked, but Kent has kind of developed into a personality cult over the years. His courses and personal brand have no doubt been very profitable for him, so I’m not too surprised to see him go back toward personal brand building and trying to increase the reach of his courses. I have a lot of respect for education initiatives and efforts to create educational content, but I’ve also had to do a lot of “deprogramming” of juniors who consumed a lot of Kent C Dodds material and end up trying to overengineer everything. He also had an expensive React testing course a couple years ago that was really disappointing, which burned a lot of goodwill among the community.

hitekker 4y ago
The comments of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28818829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28818829 touches on the concerns you've raised.
culi 4y ago
What are some of the most common practices you've had to "deprogram"? Curious

meowtimemania 4y ago

I noticed some negative reactions whenever Kent would publish content about Remix. I wonder if Kent+other Remix founders felt since reaction to Kent was at times negative, it'd be best for Kent to keep doing his own thing.