I love the questions and wish I had answers! I honestly have the same problem with my software career too… from around 8 years old, programming was kind of my e

I love the questions and wish I had answers! I honestly have the same problem with my software career too… from around 8 years old, programming was kind of my escape from the world. I self-taught a ton from library books, and then the Internet when we finally got dialup at home in ‘97. First installed Linux in ‘98. There was no learning plan, I just picked it all up along the way until ‘02 when I started undergrad. Just like your questions about learning how to be better at reading people, I have absolutely no idea how to teach someone to think about software the way I do; I’ve been asked many times! To further complicate things with learning or teaching any of these, I also was diagnosed with ADHD last year at age 37. Retrospectively, that makes perfect sense based on teacher feedback, report cards, getting 50s and 95s in the same semester… I’m sure that that also contributed to how this weird brain all got assembled, but damned if I can explain it. Edit: thank you for this! I don’t think I’ve ever really made some of these connections before!