Yeah, this was a crazy story, but the fact that people were paying what amounts to college tuition for learning-via-Slack-from-a-guy was the biggest shock to me. And I am a fan of bootcamps and think that there are bootcamps where you will get far more out of your $10,000 than you would for a year in college.

But those bootcamps are physical places, with hands on instruction from a variety of instructors. I don't keep track of the bootcamp scene but I imagined it to be saturated by now with a bit of the race to the bottom, in terms of quality and pricing. A teacher-via-Slack isn't shocking, the prices he commanded are. But maybe such an arrangement is the only resort for folks who don't live in big cities like New York, or growing hubs like Omaha?