I don't think he's dumb, but I also think a lot of people underestimate what they are capable of. Its a neat project, but it is one of those lots-of-grinding pr

I don't think he's dumb, but I also think a lot of people underestimate what they are capable of. Its a neat project, but it is one of those lots-of-grinding projects. Any tech professional should be able to pull this off, reasons abound why they won't (not motivated/mentally exhausted from work BS/have lives and no longer have infinite free time). So I think "intelligent, and hard working", not "oh man could I never do something like that". Most of us spend time doing other, less geeky things, like reading, media consumption (spending time on HN). Sure, as we get older, we "slow down", but that's OK - I could write up game engines or other complex projects in a couple weeks when I was younger, but I would also make a lot of mistakes. Stuff is mostly intuitive now.