About Us

ComCODE was founded in 2023 by John Rush and Sean Mann, who share a deep passion for technical learning and non-traditional self-directed learning techniques. They saw an opportunity to make this knowledge more accessible for people who believe they cannot learn it.

Through coaching, consulting, and game-based learning, ComCODE teaches the discipline of experimentation: how to plan, act, and reflect your way through any problem.

Our Team

Sean Mann

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Sean has spent his career building complex systems. He built games at Microsoft, mobile products at VSCO, and data visualization at Tableau, always focused on how people interact with the things he makes.

In 2014, he started building hackmud, a multiplayer hacking game that has quietly launched hundreds of programming careers. Watching 40,000 players teach themselves hard things through play changed how he understood learning. That experience became ComCODE.

John Rush

Co-Founder & President

John has been building software and growing engineers for over 30 years. He led technical teams at Microsoft, served as CTO at Fluent Forever, and spent nearly a decade as an independent consultant.

The structures most people take for granted never quite worked for him. He spent his life examining those systems, finding their pressure points, and building a reality that worked on his own terms. That's what brought him to ComCODE: the conviction that this capability should be accessible to everyone.

The Loop

Plan, Act, Reflect

Every ComCODE program uses the same fundamental cycle. Plan a safe experiment with a clear question. Act on it. Reflect on what happened and integrate what you learned into how you see the world. Repeat.

You'll find this pattern behind the scientific method, agile development, and every effective learning process. We make it explicit, teach it as a discipline, and give you environments where you can practice it until it becomes second nature.

Plan

Look at your system. What's the most important question to answer right now? Design the smallest experiment that can answer it.

Act

Run the experiment. Stay present. Observe what's actually happening, not what you expected. What are you measuring?

Reflect

Connect what happened back to your understanding of the system. What's changed about how you see things? Each cycle integrates into your experience and makes the next one sharper.

Explore Our Work

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