I’m not sure I count- I learned to program on my own but went to college and got a comp sci degree before I made a dollar doing it. 1. The most useful stuff I

I’m not sure I count- I learned to program on my own but went to college and got a comp sci degree before I made a dollar doing it. 1. The most useful stuff I learned in school was concurrency related, things like mutex or mapreduce. I may not have looked into those skills on my own 2. I don’t do that. If I start a passion project, most of the time it either turns into a tiny Proof of concept, or I learn a lesson and quit working on it. I don’t regret that at all 3. I had a sales engineer style role as my first job- it was great to get exposure to how a variety of companies run things and I still reference that experience all the time. Now working as a developer- you learn a lot more about the trade offs of various decisions when you’ve got to maintain the thing later on, so that’s been really valuable as well