The wild west days of things can be crazy but fun. Then the crowds and tax collectors come, laws are made, and now these little atomized commits that stitch together APIs is "programming".
It makes me think of other areas of life. Most of us show up at the boring, overlegislated, agile test driven development phase of things. Maybe it is good to look for the wild roots of anything.
Maybe take a different approach and give structure to what he already does naturally instead of trying to force a more typical academic or professional life. You say he likes legos; think "lego artist" or "lego youtube channel" versus software developer. Or maybe there are other interests that he takes to naturally that have far more potential but are overlooked due to being unconventional.
> When I’ve listened the most effectively to people, it’s because I was intensely curious—I was trying to build a detailed, precise understanding of what was going on in their head.
And how does one get that kind of curiosity?
It seems many things can be done with a one-liner or short shell script, but I'm not fluent enough to recognize those patterns yet. I do know a few basic commands, but much of *nix seems like a bag of undocumented tricks; and man pages are hieroglyphic IMO. Is there a cohesive path to learning all the tricks? All of them!
Good idea, well executed, short memorable domain name. Solid work, motyar.
Huge problem for criminals. Excellent solution for innocent people wanting to anonymize their browsing.
Zombocom has more value than all today's social media combined.
You can do anything there.
Or what if we don't remember due to valuing things more than people? The app becomes an illusory replacement of genuine interaction.