I'm CJ Avilla, and I help developers integrate Stripe 💳!
I'm interested in learning new programming languages; building high leverage tools; and recently, sharing what I've learned from dozens of other incredible and generous friends and online strangers in the form of video content.
When AFK, I work on projects around the house and play games with my wife and our two sons.
My partner in crime and I podcast about family, health, parenting, real estate, and money 🎙 @ avillatheory.com
Let's connect! Recent Videos Podcast Episodes Health: Fast update August 16, 2020 Finance: Becoming a 1 car family August 9, 2020 Health - Home Air Quality August 2, 2020 Parenting - School in the age of COVID-19 July 26, 2020 Parenting - COVID-19 Life at the Cabin July 19, 2020 Parenting - COVID 19 style March 14, 2020 Health - Keto, Checklists, Goals! January 20, 2020 Parenting - Flying Solo While Sick December 16, 2019 Real estate - Airbnb Superhost December 9, 2019 Parenting - Piano 🎵 December 2, 2019 Real Estate - Tear down walls November 25, 2019 Real Estate - Long term renters (tenants) November 18, 2019 Parenting - Home Birth vs Hospital birth November 11, 2019 Real Estate - Second Home vs. Rental November 4, 2019 Finances - Groceries October 28, 2019 Health - Halloween October 21, 2019 Real Estate - Getting Started October 15, 2019 Disneyland - The secrets to a successful trip. October 8, 2019 Relationships - Maintaining Friendships September 30, 2019 Parenting - Raising Kids Ages 2-6 September 23, 2019 Writing Webhook Trip Hazards November 13, 2020 Challenge Accepted November 6, 2020 Working with CJ November 2, 2020 Pianobar +1 Pandora CLI February 1, 2016 TV-Less January January 30, 2016 You wanna work remote, huh? December 4, 2015 Extreme Validation November 27, 2015 Rails + Sitemap + Heroku + AWS April 11, 2015 Where the F is JST coming from?!? April 10, 2015 Push database to Heroku using Dropbox March 31, 2015 Open tab from JavaScript February 26, 2015 Backbone rule learned during a JavaScript refactoring February 25, 2015 Rails edge case solved with middleware February 16, 2015 Solving presence in Rails Pusher vs. Node service February 6, 2015 App landing page for ionic app January 28, 2015 Let's do this! January 24, 2015 ES6 model layer for angular.js January 19, 2015 Towers of Hanoi in Scala January 15, 2015 Getting started with Ionic 1 and ES6 January 11, 2015 Editor battle + productivity hack! January 8, 2015 Suck at reading? Watch or listen instead. January 3, 2015 Currently reading (3) Recently read Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators Creating Affluence: Wealth Consciousness in the Field of All Possibilities Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life Uncanny Valley Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. A Very Punchable Face Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Head First Go Just Watch Me Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor How to Be an Antiracist The Gunslinger Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Never Never Pandemic Command Authority Tom Clancy Code of Honor Tom Clancy Enemy Contact Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You The Amazing Development of Men Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge The Alchemist Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Fifty Shades Darker Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book My Favorite Half-Night Stand Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character Norse Mythology Never Split the Difference Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Permanent Record The New Girl How to Own Your Own Mind I Will Teach You to Be Rich The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Educated The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Steve Jobs The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies The Lost Symbol Becoming Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists The Wolves The Faithful Spy The Deceivers Origin Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Fifty Shades of Grey Understanding Women Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom Need to Know Use of Force The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness High Growth Handbook Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life The Rosie Project Duty and Honor How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes A Brief History of Time Service: A Navy SEAL at War Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL Foreign Agent Pursuit of Honor Protect and Defend Act of Treason Consent to Kill Memorial Day 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works Separation of Power The Third Option Transfer of Power Kill Shot Executive Power The Last Man The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World In the Crosshairs American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor Principles The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life American Assassin Extreme Measures Term Limits The Survivor Order to Kill The Kite Runner Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index High Heat The Magnolia Story 11/22/63 Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Scrappy Little Nobody The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work The Force Awakens - A Junior Novel Year of Yes Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine The Power to Get Things Done: The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Seriously... I'm Kidding Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy Does Capitalism Have a Future? The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident When Breath Becomes Air The Ultimate Goals Program: How To Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Thought Possible The First Hostage To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy Good in a Room: How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking The Third Target Clear by Fire The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Mad Genius: A Manifesto for Entrepreneurs The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Unstuff Your Life!: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon How to Master Your Time 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Never Go Back Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Spy the Lie: Three Former CIA Officers Reveal Their Secrets to Uncloaking Deception Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Persuasion IQ: The 10 Skills You Need to Get Exactly What You Want The Martian Confident Ruby Outliers: The Story of Success Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life Investment Intelligence from Insider Trading The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit Strike Back How to Win Friends and Influence People Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century