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this is a really good article and one that hit me very personally, thank you for writing it

I loved this post. Humorously you mention economics and that's what I studied (more than once, even) before I did computer for work and I still remember looking at it and thinking it was magic and being a bit scared. I was lucky to have good friends encourage me though and I was able to learn.

Lots of different parts spoke to me but yeah maybe more than anything the idea that if something seems far away you can just start walking towards it and maybe if you keep walking you'll get there eventually has been something I've tried less eloquently to share with others.

it's been a few hours and this post finally unearthed a relevant memory back when i was a child, programming _was_ a competition. i was heavily encouraged (effectively forced) to participate in programming olympiads. i hated it so much, my career afterwards might be shaped as a reaction to that

which is to say: use libraries; document my shit; share it with others; actively collaborate instead of competing; seek out designs optimized for long term rather than "just to win this one 2 hour engagement"; probably some other things I forget

yes!! "collaborate instead of competing" is exactly the vibe i was trying to get across. all the capitalists might be competing but hardly any of the programmers i know are. i see you doing all these things and it's quite remarkable, i appreciate your work a lot :) i'm glad this post resonated.

Thank you so much for this