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Is there a defining moment/revelation/etc you can think of that might have tipped you into the first type? I ask because it seems that experience and the right
by azanar 18y ago
Is there a defining moment/revelation/etc you can think of that might have tipped you into the first type? I ask because it seems that experience and the right people aren't sufficient conditions, and that picking up the books requires motivation from the first two sources. I ask partly for curiosity, and partly so, if it is the attitude someone around you conveyed, I can cultivate the same in myself and encourage those around me to become the first type.
- pchristensen 18y agoI had left CS after I graduated in '04 because I thought the job market was bad and I didn't like the hard classes I took my last 2 semesters. I was working on a Masters in Urban Planning and read pg's essay "How to Be Silicon Valley" (http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html) which showed up in some urban planning discussion forums. It was provocative and well written so I read his other stuff, which reignited the interest in computing that I had when I was younger but lost when I became focused on school and jobs.