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Ask HN: What’s the craziest small decision you made that changed your life?
Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jzfe7v/whats_the_craziest_butterfly_effect_that_happened/
- SlipperySlope 6y agoWhile in high school in 1968, I took a typing class in which I was the poorest touch typist, and was given use of the single IBM Selectric typewriter. I was given a passing grade only on effort - not by the skills I learned poorly. But a year later, at my first Fortran computer course in college, I was the star of the the keypunch room which had the same keyboard on the 023 Keypunch as my familiar IBM typewriter. I got an A in every computer course, which was greatly enabled by the lack of frustration in the keypunch room. From worst to first. Now at age 69, there has not been a year in which I did not program, which is the most satisfying avocation I can imagine.