> Tech parents of HN, do you think this will help or hurt this young man in the long run? We don't have any information on the factors that actually matter. I

> Tech parents of HN, do you think this will help or hurt this young man in the long run? We don't have any information on the factors that actually matter. If he is intrinsically motivated to do what he's done, and not just doing it to please his parents, he will be fine. As long as he's free to move onto something new when/if the excitement wanes, it's all just good learning experience. This is one reason it's important that parents praise "doing" over "being". If you keep telling your kid "You're so good at computers", that becomes part of their identity, and it's constraining, and it creates dangerous assumptions that ability is fixed and innate. If instead we praise activity and persistence, the child feels free to switch topics, and learns to view ability as the product of practice.