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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
if i was 18 this year i would live on my parents house and spend 8 hours every day learning how to code smart contracts and farcaster frames, playing around with ideas and shipping everything asap basically 100% focused on learning a valuable skills and creating stuff why not more people do this?
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Joshua Hyde (he/him)
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Programming isn't for everyone, honestly. I don't think we should pretend that it is, or that there's anything wrong with not being well suited for being a programmer, in the same way that I'm not well suited to be an athlete, a CEO, a book store clerk, an accountant, a baker, a handyman, a...
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
im 100% in agreement with this, and i usually refer to “doing something creative”, or cultivating a given skill. any skill. here i said programming because that’s the skill I decided to sharpen as a craft with consistency, but I believe this applies to everything it’s about believing in yourself and pursuing that with commitment. life will open doors
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Joshua Hyde (he/him)
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I wonder how much analysis paralysis exists. 18 is fresh out of high school. I feel fortunate that I knew I liked programming in my early teens and that that remains true as I go into my 40s - but for people who don't have a marketable passion, what do you pick? How do you pick?
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
for me the important part is not "what to pick". that is a strong source of friction, because, no matter what, if you are not passionate about something that you already know (as you with programming) you will end up feeling: "there could be a craft that alignes with me more than this". i recommend people to focus on a meta-skill: learning to learn and be disciplined. my thesis is that if you do ANYTHING for long enough (88 minutes every day), for a period of time that is meaningful (3 months), your life will transform in a way that you can't predict before. and the exploration of that process is what ends up uncovering your true passion. and then you just continue pulling that thread of curiosity, finding yourself through the practice of the craft.
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