"I started reading programming books and attended an intense 3-day seminar and came out of it building basic web apps. By March of 1999, MetaFilter had a name a

"I started reading programming books and attended an intense 3-day seminar and came out of it building basic web apps. By March of 1999, MetaFilter had a name and a community … " The most impressive sentence comes right at the beginning. This shows what you can do, if you have a goal. All this experience of many years serves only to tame the big companies rampant systems.