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@NoLongerBennett asked me how I'd gotten to where I am today. Not "did you work hard, or was it luck?", but "how this SPECIFIC set of things - was it planned, or what it openness to opportunities?" It was a very good question and made me think. >>1 reply 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
3/ And my answer kind of surprised me. By age 12 or so I'd read most of Heinlein and * took to heart the "a human being should be able to..." quote * loved Moon is Harsh Mistress, wanted sequels, thought I might write them myself * read SF with entrepreneurs, decided to be one
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4/ Also read the Foxfire books and decided that I wanted to live on a farm, build my house, blacksmith, butcher pigs. Not too much later learned of Prometheus award, thought it would be a high goal to aim for.
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5/ Introduced to computers at age 8 or 9 and started programming in BASIC. Wanted to be a scientist or an engineer. So, looking back on it, pretty much all of my goals were set by age 12, and I've spent the last 37 years pursuing them. which is ... kind of crazy?
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6/ WTF does a 12 year old know about the world? About reasonable trade offs? About alternative paths? And yet, here I am. Living on a farm, butchering pigs, blacksmithing, working as a software engineer, with Prometheus awards on the wall for a rewrite of tMiaHM.
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7/ I guess the good thing is that my utility function is pretty similar to 12 year old me's utility function. But still - really just now sinking in that some idiot 12 year old did all of this to me.
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8/ FWIW, I founded SmartFlix in response to the HEAP project in Cryptonomicon. So that was a later-in-life influence. https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1188474668849729537 …
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9/ different strokes for different folks https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1188477698571755520 …
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