292 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 6 Jul 2023 \ on: Hi! I'm Kody, Head of Developer & Product Support at Fedi. Ask Me Anything! bitcoin
I've heard from reliable sources that you were an absolute madman when teaching yourself to code. Suggesting, to me at least, that it was calling you.
What kept you from programming for so long? Do you think you'd have eventually found programming if it wasn't for bitcoin?
Haha thanks I'll take that one as a compliment. I get really into what I'm working on when I know it's meaningful and important. When I was leading Marines it was about helping and serving them and making sure i did everything I could to prepare and train them and myself, so didn't have time to do other stuff I might've liked to like coding. Pretty common quip in infantry is that if the Marine Corps wanted you to have a family or social life they would've issued you them . I only started coding on my last active deployment because COVID happened and we weren't allowed to do anything we were locked in our rooms and I had tactical operations center watches for like 12-24 hours where nothing happened because everything in the world was locked down.
You work hard and stay focused so in the event we end up in a sticky situation we don't have to go through the rest of our lives thinking "Well if I hadn't taken that vacation or weekend off or whatever maybe John would still be alive".
Working on Bitcoin I get the same feeling, we've got this incredible opportunity to bring property rights to billions of people and if we don't succeed I don't want it to be because I took time off or didn't push through. It makes me really annoying to work with for people who try to lead a balanced life haha.
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You work hard and stay focused so in the event we end up in a sticky situation we don't have to go through the rest of our lives thinking "Well if I hadn't taken that vacation or weekend off or whatever maybe John would still be alive".
So true. I have no military experience but I would say I am quite fascinated by the military with its strategies, discipline, moral, camaraderie, weapon handling etc. or just war in general. After reading "Chickenhawk" from Robert Mason I was intrigued and was determined to read more books about wars and would say I now can relate more to what veterans (at least Vietnam veterans) experienced. Obviously, I will never be able to completely relate to it (since I think you have to experience war itself to be able - like with many things) but reading books about it still helps, I think. Next book will be "With the Old Breed" from Eugene Sledge and "Helmet for my Pillow" from Robert Leckie.
Do you have any book recommendations about war?
Also, sometimes I regret that I didn't join the Army for a few years after I finished school. To experience at least a small part of all this stuff I am now reading about myself. I know it sounds wrong and naive to say "I want to experience war itself" but I think I just can't put it well into words how I feel about it. I think I just want to understand the people who experienced war better. Can you understand what I mean? Is that weird? lol
Sorry if off topic and you didn't expect to get into this topic here. Your sentence just resonated well with me and what I read about the military so far. I hope I don't sound too naive about this stuff, haha
Thank you for your service even though I am not from the US :)
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