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I don't consider the term 'self-taught' to mean that you didn't learn from others. Before the Internet, the local library was the primary source of information. People would go spend an enormous amount of time reading and browsing books written by other people to learn a skill.

I would consider those people to be self taught.



Of course, you're right. I think what I meant to say is that people often emphasize the autodidact aspect of my career, but it feels like it detracts from how lost I would have been without the combination of people generously sharing information, whether it was a tutorial or open source code to reference. It's such an incredible resource we have. But yeah, absolutely, I don't mean to claim there's no self-teaching involved at all.




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