I recently included this in an email that I wrote to someone who I am hoping helps me with some projects that I am working on:
“I have been a hubber as long as I have been a hacker, and I got indicted on my first hacking charges in 5th Grade. I grew up on GitHub, learned to code on GitHub and got my first job because of GitHub.”
I am one of those people who grew up on the computer. I was not an iPad kid, I was before that and after the dotcom bubble. I was the dude in school who could fix the school computers better then the tech guys, the guy at the library who the librarian asked for help when they has issues, I was that guy.
The issue is that being that guy also gets you socially ostracized in the world that I grew up in. You grow up lonely because nobody can keep up with you, nobody finds the same things interesting and on top of that, when they do they do not have the same level of understanding that you do and that pushes them away.
I am going to write about my life, what I have learned, the things that I see in the world, and maybe I will help you see things a bit more clearly.
