What's up everybody?

This is Cortland from Andy Hackers.com and you're listening to the Andy Hackers podcast.

On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses, and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.

How do they get to where they are today?

How do they make decisions at their companies and in their personal lives? And what exactly makes their businesses tick? And the goal here is always is so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on to build our own successful internet businesses. Today I'm talking to Adam Wadden. Adam is a guy with a very diverse set of interests. He's a powerlifter. He's a musician, a podcast host,

but he's also a software engineer, an educator, and an anti-hacker. He does each of these three

things in concert. In 2016, Adam decided he was going to make a full-time living, helping other

developers build awesome software. And since then, he's done $2.5 million in sales of his books and courses. So Adam, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you. Hey, thanks for having me. I was just watching a live YouTube cast that you did earlier this week. I think it was a couple days ago. And you were trying to work on some sort of CSS issue, putting together a website using your latest framework.

And it was really cool to watch because you had hundreds of people tuned in,

and they were really just learning by watching you learn.

They were watching you tinker with things and change your CSS to try to get your website to look exactly the way that you wanted it to look.

It was pretty obvious that you were enthusiastic about all of this.

Do you think that being passionate about learning and really enjoying that process is

required for being a good educator or do you think it's good enough just to like the

teaching side of things?

Good question.

I think probably it helps to be excited about learning yourself, to be paying attention

to the things that work for you.

I've always been just a voracious learner, like my whole life. Anytime like I learn about some

topic that interests me, I can't resist, but to just like dive into every corner and find

out every piece of information that exists about it on the entire

internet. You know, my sort of personal obsession with learning definitely contributes to

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