"One regret I do have: I spent too much time waiting for other people. Investors, cofounders, mentors. I found that once I started actually building, these things came naturally." --
I had this same experience. It wasn't until I pushed something live that those things/people just fell into place. Great article!
"Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why." -- love this
I'm starting to the feel same way about swift. While the syntax is less verbose which I prefer. It feels that its just incremental improvements to objc.