The third one resonates. As someone who also started coding at a young age, here’s what worked for me: 1. Have at least 10 free hours each week, 2. Get fanatica

The third one resonates. As someone who also started coding at a young age, here’s what worked for me: 1. Have at least 10 free hours each week, 2. Get fanatically addicted to coding, 3. Repeat for 8 years and then do a four year CS degree. Pretty useless advice. Apropos the article, it’s easy to imagine there’s a similar lottery for most paths in life, including entrepreneurship. “Be born rich enough that you have the innate confidence that the universe will bend to your will” is a lottery I didn’t win. Surely, a kernel of the current political polarization is the left’s insistence that these lottery tickets matter, and the right’s insistence that the wealth they’re holding is the result of their own hard work. (To be clear, it’s a spectrum — tickets come in different sizes, and hard work plays a role — but such nuance has no place in public discourse)