Chris

While working as a researcher in distributed systems, Dr. Christian Mayer found his love for teaching computer science students.To help students reach higher levels of Python success, he founded the programming education website Finxter.com that has taught exponential skills to millions of coders worldwide. He's the author of the best-selling programming books Python One-Liners (NoStarch 2020), The Art of Clean Code (NoStarch 2022), and The Book of Dash (NoStarch 2022). Chris also coauthored the Coffee Break Python series of self-published books. He's a computer science enthusiast, freelancer, and owner of one of the top 10 largest Python blogs worldwide.His passions are writing, reading, and coding. But his greatest passion is to serve aspiring coders through Finxter and help them to boost their skills. You can join his free email academy here.

Your Degree Won’t Save You: 3 Painfully Simple Steps to Escape the Knowledge-Worker Collapse

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Humanoid robots are on the cusp of bringing real-world abundance. We’re past the sci-fi phase. Together, that’s capital, customers, and compute lining up — the usual ingredients before scale. Content already hit abundance — and it changed the value of each piece. You can see the flood in the metrics. In a world like this, … Read more

Tesla Optimus Robot Segment – Market Cap Potential Over 5 Years

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Article Summary (Key Points) Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot represents a bold expansion beyond electric vehicles, aiming to transform labor-intensive industries with automation. This analysis evaluates the Optimus segment’s potential contribution to Tesla’s market capitalization over the next five years. We consider direct sales to businesses and consumers, estimate production costs and pricing via first principles, … Read more

Reflections on Reaching 16 Million People Online in Four Years

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Creating Finxter was a life-changing, almost spiritual experience for me. My main goal was always to help improve collective intelligence. Pursuing that goal, we educated more than 16 million people online. And that’s counting only those on the blog itself. Let’s reflect on some key observations On average, a Finxter visitor spent 42 seconds (of … Read more

The Top 6 AI Tools That I Can’t Live Without

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✨ Image generated with one of the tools by the author. ✨ As you may know from the Finxter newsletter, I’ve been diving deep into generative AI, building apps, creating content, and experimenting with hundreds of AI tools over the last three years. The vast majority of AI tools is worthless. But there is a … Read more

(Fixed) Thrive Optimize Not Working – Loads Blank Page

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I just experienced an issue when using Thrive Optimize after trying to create a new A/B split test that attempts to load an URL of the format “exampe.com/path-to-page/?thrive-variations=true”. The loaded page was just blank and I couldn’t create any new split test. The reason for the error was a plugin conflict between Fortunately, the solution … Read more

How to Make Money with AI Writers (Koala Review)

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A scalable way to use AI to make money remains content creation. It puzzles me that most people still don’t create their own content websites. The economics of content creation with AI are straightforward – here’s an example: These conservative assumptions would build a nice little AI side hustle: 🔢 10 articles * 1000 visitors … Read more