Life: ultimately not caring about what I'm told to learn/do, but instead learning what I'm interested in. My current career started as an impicit decision that "math homework is boring" and "making games is fun". I was 13 then. This choice led me to programming, to technology and made me a man I now am. (Maths grades did suffer and never recovered even until university - I ended up learning everything anyway, but usually a year too late; but there were also many bits, mostly related to game programming, I knew years before I should have)
Programming: Discovering Lisp 3 years ago. It turned my programming upside-down, gave me a job in Erlang (that I had since quitted) and seriously expanded my thinking. Also led me to pg's essays, HackerNews and LessWrong, all of which transformed my way of thinking and - I feel - made me much more rational person than I was.
Programming: Discovering Lisp 3 years ago. It turned my programming upside-down, gave me a job in Erlang (that I had since quitted) and seriously expanded my thinking. Also led me to pg's essays, HackerNews and LessWrong, all of which transformed my way of thinking and - I feel - made me much more rational person than I was.