Nate Cooper Author, Edupreneur

After working in marketing at Apple Inc, Nate established himself within the New York tech and entrepreneurial community.His writing has appeared in Mashable and his book ‘Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS and WordPress’ has been a bestseller in Programming: CSS books on Amazon.com. Nate has taught web development for Mediabistro, General Assembly, SVA, FIT, 92Y, Noble Desktop, Google, Amazon, and Wharton.

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I wrote this book

Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress

No Starch Press, 2014

Build Your Own Website is a fun, illustrated introduction to the basics of creating a website. Join Kim and her little dog Tofu as she learns HTML, the language of web pages, and CSS, the language used to style web pages, from the Web Guru and Glinda, the Good Witch of CSS. Once she figures out the basics, Kim travels to WordPress City to build her first website, with Wendy, the WordPress Maven, at her side. They take control of WordPress® themes, install useful plugins, and more.

Amazon: 4.5 Stars, Best Seller Programming > CSS
Translations: Russian, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech

I'm a Speaker

I have given talks here:

SXSWi

Campus by Google

Amazon Web Services Loft

Apple Inc NYC

Wharton Business School

I'm an Entrepreneur

I founded these companies

WordPress-focused Website design and development. Human-centered design, consulting, and training.

Learning to code while making a social impact, corporate training + coding for marketing and product managers

Here are my blog posts:

Changing Your Brain: Is it Possible to Rewire Your Brain?

by natecooper | June 25, 2019 | books, cool, culture, education, Mindfulness, Psychology, Science, technology | 0 Comments

I recently picked up a book by Moheb Constandi called Neuroplasticity. It was published by MIT Press in 2016 and I was mostly interested in reading about the current state of the science on the subject. Neuroplasticity is a general term that describes a number of...

Minimalists Revolt: Cal Newport on Saving our Digital Discourse

by natecooper | February 6, 2019 | books, culture, digital media, internet, media, Mindfulness, Nate's Thoughts, Psychology, technology | 2 Comments

Last Monday I entered a wide corporate lobby with marbled floors and an imposing security desk. In midtown Manhattan on the second floor lies a kind of open floor plan tech campus home of Company. The backdrop of the event's stage were gilded age windows dramatically...

Interview with Molly Sonsteng Tapping into deep work and removing distractions while living a creative life

by natecooper | June 20, 2018 | Cut Your Learning Curve, education, nate, news | 0 Comments

http://traffic.libsyn.com/natecooper/Molly_Sonsteng_v1a_-_61918_4.57_PM.mp3 In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve I interviewed Molly Sonsteng. Listen to the episode her or subscribe on iTunes. Molly is a producer, project manager, and entrepreneur dedicated to...

The Edge of Tomorrow: Streaks, Failure & Learning How to Learn with Juvoni Beckford

by natecooper | June 6, 2018 | cities, cool, culture, Cut Your Learning Curve | 0 Comments

In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve, I speak with my friend Juvoni Beckford. Juvoni grew up in the Bronx. At a young age, Juvoni recognized the patterns that kept people from in his environment from reaching their full potential. Through a lot of hard work and...

Imposter Syndrome and Removing the Roadblocks

by natecooper | May 30, 2018 | culture, Cut Your Learning Curve, digital media, education | 0 Comments

"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness." Thomas Carlyle I think about this quote a lot when I sit down to write. Or rather sometimes when I don't. It's because I struggle with what might be called writers block but is really just a special form...

Technomindfulness: The Art of Silence (Medium)

by natecooper | April 3, 2018 | digital media, internet, Mindfulness, nate, Nate's Thoughts, Psychology | 0 Comments

For the past several weeks I have been conducting an experiment on the relationship between myself and my phone. It is not a new device or anything super fancy. (It’s an iPhone 8 I believe). Each day, I prep my phone to manage how I want it to interrupt my day. I do...

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