Coding bootcamps swept the Bay Area a few years ago as two demands converged: startups' demand for programmers, and liberal arts majors' demand for stable, well-paying jobs. In a typical bootcamp, students study programming and build websites for twelve to sixteen 80-hour weeks with the goal of landing a programming job after graduation (tuition: 12k-18k). The model has proven effective enough to warrant their rapid spread to every major U.S. and E.U. city.
Given that, I propose that we expand the coding bootcamp model to train other high-demand skills and address some critical gaps in our generation's competencies:
- Starting a cult or LLC bootcamp
- Effective altruism bootcamp
- Understanding historical context and systemic bias bootcamp
- Taking personal and professional risks bootcamp
- Extraversion for introverts bootcamp
- Accepting criticism bootcamp
- Authentic kindness bootcamp
- Dealing with failure bootcamp
- Feeding yourself and others bootcamp
- Eye contact bootcamp
- Taking responsibility for the problem and the solution bootcamp
- Remembering where you put the thing bootcamp
- Not checking Twitter bootcamp
- Fix anything in your house bootcamp
- Calling your mom more often bootcamp
- Feeling comfortable with long silences bootcamp
- Taking a decent selfie bootcamp
- Living with another person bootcamp
- Putting weights away after you're done using them at the gym bootcamp (men only)
- Feeling content by yourself bootcamp
- Feeling content around other people bootcamp
- Twerking bootcamp