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Six months ago, after reading Gödel, Escher, Bach, I don’t know why, but I gained enough confidence to think I could learn to code.
After majoring in economics, I worked mostly in TradFi as an investment adviser, market researcher, financial analyst, and in other fancy-titled roles. I got so bored with corporate structures that I quit everything and lived a nomadic life for about a year, including a few months in the jungle. After that, I opened a small café on the beach and was sure I would do that for the rest of my life.
Then COVID happened, and I somehow managed to sustain it, but a cyclone hit, wiping out the entire café. With my trading experience, I lived in the mountains for a few months, trading crypto while figuring out what to do next. That’s when I discovered the writings of @vitalik.eth. I read and listened to whatever I could find of his work, started learning Solidity, and that eventually helped me land my first job in crypto as a research analyst in a GameFi project. 3 replies
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For the next two years, I researched, evaluated, and analyzed many crypto projects, which helped me understand what makes a good or bad project. I wrote weekly reports and monthly newsletters, which led me to dive deep into everything happening onchain.
A whole new world of tech opened up for me. I started using tools regularly that I never even knew existed, like Notion, Discord, Figma, Slack, Substack, Medium, Metamask, Etherscan, Uniswap, and more. I read whatever was suggested to help me understand this new world I knew existed but never thought I’d be part of.
Over the last six months, I’ve learned about HTML, CSS, Node.js, GitHub, VS Code, and I’ve become especially interested in SQL, Dune, and Python. Thanks to Farcaster, I found /fbi, a community that just accepted me. 1 reply
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