My kids are always coming up with startup ideas. I decided the 10 yo is now old enough to hear the truth: if you want to start a startup, the thing to be doing at 10 is learning the things that will enable you to have good startup ideas at 20. How to program especially.
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I wouldn't have spent so much of my life programming if I didn't believe it was deeply interesting. I'd have been hosing myself. And I am both fairly ambitious and know about a variety of different fields, so I'm not merely naively trudging along in some rut.
I'm not saying that the stuff one does on an average day at the average startup is deeply interesting. But the fundamental concepts are, and so are some of the things you can do with programming.
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A subset of my kids' many ventures (from most to least profitable): fresh fruit & veggie snack delivery $$$ (B2B + recurring rev) firewood sales $$$ (semi-recurring rev) baked good stand $$ lemonade stand $ video game with tip jar rock saleshttps://geoffreygraham.com/2014/06/11/really-young-entrepreneurs/ …
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Amazing read. You’re doing amazing by teaching and mentoring them at such a young age.
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I know more people than I can count who ‘program’ on a regular basis. Scientists, engineers, artists. Knowing enough to solve a problem through data structures and operations, and being able to distinguish it from ‘art’ is an essential facility.
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Knowing how to program lets you predict what you can solve with code and how hard it would be, and startups are usually about solving problems with code. If you can’t predict that, your ideas will have to be filtered by others, decreasing the number of useful ideas you generate.
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Except the part about predicting how hard it would be, no one does that very well
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I wonder if engineers working on average problems invent problems for themselves to remain in the flow state more easily, including using dopamine-triggering tools.
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Um. CI/CD pipeline = dopamine triggering tool, complete with random non-deterministic losses
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This is kind of true of the practice of law too. It's just less socially valuable in most cases.
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It’s not programming itself (or plumbing) that has extraordinary value. It’s that both of these train the brain to think differently. The tool isn’t what is important, it’s knowing how to figure out how to use the tool. It’s getting good at probem solving and what tools exist.
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System thinking I think very important
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