A list of people who got into the tech scene without tech skills: 1. Julia Allison - she tried to cheat her way into a fundraiser and despite that ended up on

A list of people who got into the tech scene without tech skills: 1. Julia Allison - she tried to cheat her way into a fundraiser and despite that ended up on the cover of WiReD: http://gawker.com/284123/an-east-coast-hustler-tries-to-cheat-a-fundraiser http://gawker.com/284123/an-east-coast-hustler-tries-to-chea... 2. Nick Starr - my cousin who is a cop is still interested in talking to you for laptops that were stolen that you are selling. 3. Hermione Way - I honestly wanted to work for you as a coder because you had entrée into all these "cool" parties, but despite now having an app that gets 100,000 photo uploads a day (Via.Me) I'm still not cool enough to work for you? WTF? There isn't a scene to get into. Instead there is a long standing list of problems that have existed since the beginning of computer science. Read Knuth or something similar if you don't know which these are. Either you are on board for solving those problems or your real interests lie elsewhere. Decide which you are.