Yet Another Byte

Days of learning turned in to months. I learned that hacking was way harder than it looked, and I partly blame that due to books like “Become a Master Programmer in 24 Hours”. As I dove deeper and deeper in to the world of hacking, my respect and admiration for true hackers rose exponentially. At the same time, my frustration increased as well. I felt like I had digressed so far from my original goal, to create a startup. I dreamed of marketing to users, pitching to investors, and cold calls to potential advertisers; but instead I was stuck here learning how to create pointless number games and address books in a language I barely understood.

And then I realized what I was doing wrong and why this was all so displeasing to me. My approach to hacking was the wrong one. I approached it as a means to achieving an end; not because I was genuinely interested in it. I approached hacking as a stepping stone, and once that was done I’d go to the next step. But hacking, programming, whatever you want to call it—it’s not like that. Its something you have to invest real time in to, and you have to have a special drive to become good at it.