From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (2017)
An inspirational read.  Personally I am at a strange spot in life where I am trying to rediscover my own self worth as a programmer after working for several years as the CTO for a small startup company.  I&#x27;ve been out of work for a few months now.  It can be hard to wake up and know that the places I have interviewed are not interested (there have been several).  It isn&#x27;t that I am trying to get another executive position because a &quot;programming&quot; position would do me just fine.  I am just trying to keep a positive outlook and move forward.  So it is good to read about success, I guess, that is the result of hard work.  Anyway I feel adrift.  I am working on my own project&#x2F;potential company so perhaps that will turn out to be a way to feed myself.  Probably it wont.  Am I out of the programming game for good?  Sometimes I feel that way, but I can say that I was mesmerized by that first hello world.