The “Full Stack Professor” Who Left Academia for the Internet

Sorry about that! My site went down, but it's back up now. And yes, that's Justin's blog.

Justin here, thanks for your interest. ;-) On the point of professors attracting grad students interested in seeing and participating in the prof's work... That's true and it is a major element of what I'm doing. Many of the people who take my courses do so to stimulate/improve some kind of personal creative or intellectual project; I write books and such alongside the courses, and we occasionally discuss strategy, tactics, workflows, etc. So it is very similar to the working relationships I had with grad students in the university. The only difference is now my students aren't hoping to land academic jobs, they just want to do meaningful work and make their dent on the world through the internet.

Yep I write books too. I've only published one short one since leaving academia a year ago — in part because right now I'm hustling hard on the business model and infrastructure — but I expect that within a few years I'll be doing research for about 75% of my time, as "top of funnel" work that brings people into the courses and the rest. This is a well known business model, the only thing I'm doing that's new is making the "top of funnel" content legit disinterested research at a professional level (instead of an instrumental value proposition, e.g. take my course to earn X more dollars).

The subject's actual webpage is here https://theotherlifenow.com/tag/jumping-ship/ Thank you otoburb for this link.

Third paragraph down in the first section lists "University of Southampton".

It says on his blog it was The University of Southampton.