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

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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@devinjelliot

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

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?