Pointing out the tech I used at the time is a bit of a red herring for the argument I was making. The point I should have made was that I focused on the techno

Pointing out the tech I used at the time is a bit of a red herring for the argument I was making. The point I should have made was that I focused on the technology instead of the fundamentals of software. I was obsessed with learning the tech that that existed at the time instead of learning how to craft software in general with the least amount of complexity. I wrote a website that got 10 visits a month with Spring and Struts. I had simpler options but was pretty convinced everything had to be "enterprise grade". Today, if you had to build it, you'd build a static site. I learned quite a bit from these mistakes. My argument does romance the idea of a mentor that was hyper-intelligent and cared about my career. Mistakes are always made. Mentor and mentee alike. C'est la vie.