A Medium publication by Leo Widrich-style entrepreneur Leo Grand, on teaching homeless people to code, relationships, play, and entrepreneurship.
HN links it for the story of offering homeless people coding lessons, which drew press coverage, and one commenter calls it guerrilla marketing.
Shameful guerilla marketing... or real-life 'Trading Places'?
>"Option #1: I will give you $100 in cash.
Option #2: I will return tomorrow with a basic laptop and three books to learn to code. I will then come an hour early before work and teach you to become a software engineer."
https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/ae059ddffd2e
>How I taught a homeless man to build an app in a week
Software developer takes on vagrant and helps him develop his own business.
Patrick McConlogue came up with the idea after passing the homeless man every day on his way to work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436371/Homeless-man-builds-app-month-code-training.html
This story has been all over the tech press since August, so I'll be slightly surprised if you've missed it:
https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/fee8f3ee97a0
The high points came when he was arrested and then released.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/16/nypd-releases-homeless-coder-after-arrest-in-time-for-today-show-interview/
As it says, he's even been on the Today show.
This is an "as told to" for the Experience column in he Guardian's Saturday magazine, so it's not intended to be a news report.
Related articles on Medium (from the guy who offered this):
Part 1:
https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/fee8f3ee97a0
Part 2:
https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/ae059ddffd2e
Leo's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Journeyman/167865816737032