Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness
I like how so many professionals sort of stumbled into programming. This might even make a good Ask HN if it hasn’t been done already. I myself stumbled onto this weird copy of Visual Basic on a warez site one day. It was this like...portable version I guess? It was just a standalone app. Anyway I downloaded it and started playing around. That, and I was once stumbling around an old Windows 3 computer and just executing files to see what they did and when I ran QBASIC I was like..well hello.