How to go full on Renaissance Man mode in 2025 with Vaughn Gene Podcast, 161

On this week s episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Vaughn Gene. He s a selftaught software engineer who works with lots of freelance clients. Vaughn lived in Japan for 10 years, and speaks Japanese, speaks Spanish, plays guitar, plays piano, and is skilled at MMA. He s obsessed with learning new skills. We talk about: How Vaughn struggled with high school and joined the Navy How he learned Japanese so he could work as a personal trainer in Japan How he learned coding using freeCodeCamp as a way to make more time and more money His pragmatic approach for teaching himself new skills for free Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything outofthebox, th. .., freeCodeCamp 20250224 TPobG2emAfk