I’ve written a lot of software that made a lot of other people lots of money, basically… initially in social media and now the healthcare industry. I ‘learned

I’ve written a lot of software that made a lot of other people lots of money, basically… initially in social media and now the healthcare industry. I ‘learned to program’ when I was a kid back in the 90’s from books that my mom’s boyfriend had gotten me, trying to steer me that way. I didn’t like it much and it wasn’t until many years later that I picked it up again and got good, mostly driven by a desire to understand how old video games worked. The thing that took me from a dude who knows how to do basic stuff to a senior engineer at a big company was having a mentor. My real programming job came with a fantastic one and he taught me pretty much everything I needed to know… he spent a lot of time distilling many years of acquired experience into something I could consume alongside him and I’ll forever be grateful.