Degen

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?

father, meditator and programmer. working on @anky. jpfraneto.substack.com

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...

* higher rank in Tae Kwon Do than Vladimir Putin
* hobbies include finding new highs of dad jokes
* open-source contributor (I updated a README once)

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?

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