Punderline 62: Smart people be like...

I think that a lot of what entrepreneurs do is applicable to everyone. Our keen ability to find flaws in the status quo and then to take that initiative to spearhead a solution is something that we should apply to life itself and how we develop goals for ourselves.

I admit, I used to think contributing to Firefox was basically impossible, especially as someone who didn’t yet know Rust or C++. And even if I overcame this hurdle, I thought it was hard to get set up, difficult to find bugs that are well-scoped to what I can actually accomplish given my skillset, and challenging to understand the complex codebases that would be typical of large software projects. But I wanted to help. And after hacking Google Chrome, I realized that maybe I could, or at least I could try.

I’m just a regular engineering student. I mean, sure, I like watching random educational youtube videos, using computers, and programming for fun, but I mean, hey, that’s why I’m in ECE. Yet, I’m not a hacker, nor do I have the skills to even remotely consider myself one. And even despite the plethora of reasons I should fail, I managed to do what I thought I could never do.