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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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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
When I was 18, I was 2 years in to running my first business, it was the dot com bubble, I was painting the houses of everyone with a pile of exit liquidity and I was beginning to kick myself for not learning to code because they were paying insane prices for me to slap paint on their houses. I didn’t started to learn how to code until after 30
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
that’s so amazing learning how to run a business out of your own experience > learning how to code at that point imo. at least in term of cultivating a skill that is valuable for life did you eventually learn? how?
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
I have mixed emotions on this. It taught me how to manage cash flows and be cash efficient which was actually a liability when I came to tech. No VC seemed to understand cash flow nor fiscal responsibility, none of the way money worked here made any sense to me and I didn’t parse the differences well enough. I basically learned on the job. I was the first hire at a startup probabilistically modeling weather in 2010, we hire an engineer who was drowning, I said show me what to do and I’ll help, that was the beginning of code and tech for me
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
interesting. and how did you move on from that initial friction towards that new-ness? and oh wow. that's the most amazing way to learn. like the dream one lol. what was the first thing you had to do? what programming language was it on? can you write about it here for 8 minutes? https://framesgiving.anky.bot?prompt=tell+us+about+your+experience+on+your+first+programming+job
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notdevin
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Yeah I’ll poke around today. To answer here for a moment, the first thing was changing some strings, also learn what a string was, then progress into methods, this was PHP in 2010. Our office was the supply closet on the roof of a building on Bankers Hill in SD. I will argue until the day I die, that was the best office on the hill. This was my daily view
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