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How to Build a Side Project That Actually Teaches You Something
In this episode of Career Skills with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore why side projects often fail to build real skills—and how to design one that does. They break down the difference between a completed project and a learning project, using the example of a marketing analyst who built a bot to price vintage furniture and ended up learning Python, SQL, and negotiation. Lucas introduces the 'learning contract' concept: before you write a line of code or sketch a design, you write down three skills you want to end up with. They discuss how constraints (like a deadline or a budget)…
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