It made me almost feel bad watching it, though. The dude is clearly so quick -- not even in coding, but just using a computer in general -- that given how much of my life I spend in front of this thing, I think I really missed a trick in not being extra attentive to trying to make sure I could maneuver my way around it as fast as he does.

It's just a case of taking the time to learn your tools. Take the time if you think it's worth it.

A few hours of dedicated learning will put you miles ahead of casual users. It's not at all unattainable.

Thats like saying anyone can become a good concert pianist if they practice enough, not true.

Would you say geohot is a concert level pianist at...typing? Maybe you could say he's at the level for actually coding.

I'd say what I'm talking about is more akin to learning scales, which most people could do with a few hours of effort.

Well, that’s in part true. You need to learn and practice your fundamentals if you want to improve your skills in a domain. In software development, learning your main tools is one of those.

You can always find people better than you. But if you focus on continuous improvement that number will shrink while the number that you are better than will grow.

It also helps that he doesn't actually accomplish anything and mostly just dicks around. Also "kooky character" is a pretty charitable way to describe him.

Who are some other intersection coders one can follow?