#Ever forward net worth free

My greatest skill in life thus far has been learned via the roughly 30,000 hours Iâ€ ™ ve spent on the internet over the last 20 years. I understand this all might sound fluffy and indulgent and youâ€ ™ re wondering why I believe my own bullshit about being â€ œ raised by the internetâ€ â€ “ you may even be some troll who’s going to rip me apart for all of my grammar inconsistencies and laugh at my narcissismÂ in believing that i’m articulating anything different than all of the other tech savvy innovators expressing their understanding of things much more complex than my silly self stated relationship with the internet Â (word up trolls, you too have your place, just like real world haters, and make the internet go round and round and round) - Â the reality is that as a true stereotypical millennial, the function, the tools, the landscape, the environment of the internet, my internet, has become a large part of who I am. Keep in mind Iâ€ ™ m not completely fucking naive. I played in virtual worlds and researched all of the specs of the first furby before convincing my parents to get me one. I could start projects and teach myself html. If I didn’t like what was happening around me, I could change it within the web. For me, all of those hours of childhood were spent learning my way around a new world. The first time a boy ever told me he loved me was over AIM and I built my first modular website using homestead website designer, I cried over Simon and Garfunkel songs I found on Napster when I had my heart broken for the first time. I even had a little stint with the online virtual stock exchange. I learned about Safaris and Dubai and birth control and capital punishment. The internet became this place where all of my unanswered questions could live. The fascination also started from a young age because I was a very introverted child with, for lack of a better term, extremely removed parents.

#Ever forward net worth free

I was a kid with a browser, so i didn’t have time for all of the other bullshit.Â I should put in context that my love affair with the internet started somewhere between collecting AOL free 20 hour disks and some years later realizing that the pioneering Â social networks allowed me to appear a lot cooler than I actually am in real life. All I wanted to do was learn about the things I deemed relevant. I never had to believe or stay focused on things that someone told me would peak my interest - there was so much actually out there that did. It wasnâ€ ™ t until later that I realized a large part of this was largely due to the instant gratification the internet had given me and my inability to accept things that couldn’t hold my attention span. I canâ€ ™ t tell you how much anxiety that concept had given me in my early twenties with the realization that this was becoming an accepted thing, a popular thought,Â and i was the kid who had quit every activity it was possible to fake sick enough times and ultimately drop out of. Whether it is basketball or fishing, playing the guitar or swimming - you must commit a certain minimum to garner enough experience to fully immerse and understand your craft.

The idea is that it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill.

Malcolm Gladwell so famously spoke of his 10,000 hour rule in his book Outliers.

As a ripe 27 year old Iâ€ ™ m not exactly sure where all of them were, or if they ever heard of Frys or Netscape or got their hands on a copy of DOOM â€ “ but twenty years ago I was already exploring/in love with the web.

They speak quick and condescendingly about todayâ€ ™ s Snap Chat generation and ponder over the wholesome days spent in the backyard, now long gone. When I hear aggravated twenty somethingâ€ ™ s talk nostalgically about their forts and forest and farms of the past â€ “ I am completely perplexed. Whether it was my two week ice skating stint or few month long dabble with fencing in the eighth grade â€ “ nothing ever stuck â€ “ except for this. I can remember trying and failing at just about everything as a kid. The only thing Iâ€ ™ ve ever been good at is the internet.