Wow is this good. I realize everyone must have seen it by now, but FWIW I agree with almost everything. The only thing I'd change is "If you can't code [learn to]." And talk about throwing shade on business books. This is better than all of them, and it's just a Twitter thread.https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936 …
If you replace "code" with "read" you'd have something most powerful people would have said in 900, but time has shown that this once esoteric skill is broadly useful.
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You don't even need to be a great programmer if, as you say, you're hiring that done. Knowing something of the craft will help you understand what those hired hands are doing and how better to communicate your ideas into their terms. You want your CFO to understand accounting.
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Reading has changed drastically since then. Most is done in the person’s native language. Manuscripts and writing materials are far more available. Coding follows a similar path. By the time it’s broadly useful it will be barely recognizable as the same thing.
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monige cuðon Englisc gewrit arædan
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Wow, that hit so hard that I'm actually going to learn to code. I'm thinking of starting with Python. Any thoughts on that or recommendations for other languages?
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Python seems the default at the moment. But it doesn't matter much. If you have a friend who can advise you initially and they like language x, use x instead.
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Except that machines will very likely end up doing it all.
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it won’t happen unless machines can read your mind. and even when that day comes, you have to very careful of what you think all the time lest it gets misconstrued.
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