Conversation

"These were not professional circles. You didn’t need a CS degree. You needed curiosity and stubbornness and a tolerance for reading things that were too long and trying things that didn’t work on the first ten attempts. The culture valued that and passed it down. … The knowledge propagated because the culture treated knowledge as worth propagating."

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/