Not mentioned in the article is the strange workings of scientific publishing. In my 20s I found writing open source software much more interesting than writing

Not mentioned in the article is the strange workings of scientific publishing. In my 20s I found writing open source software much more interesting than writing scientific papers describing the software. Whereas to me at that time it seemed everyone else was describing the buggy collection of Matlab code in articles without publishing any of the code (or datasets used), making it impossible to reproduce their results. The topic of my unfinished PhD was finding structure in musical pieces with AI.