Delicate Genius (aka Microsoft’s Michael Kordahi) tweeted me a while ago about putting this up, and in the interest of historical accuracy, here it is! Other geek origin stories can be found from his blog post.
I wasn’t terribly geeky as a young lad, except I loved Lego and got into roleplaying games in a big way. At university I fell into a crowd that were much geekier than I (hat tip to Justin McLean), and along the way got pulled into doing an Information Systems major for my Bachelors of Commerce degree.
Something must have happened because by the time I met and married my lovely wife I looked like a true geek! (gotta love the Doc Martens)
Looking back I think the same qualities that caused me to fail Accounting Financial Management 1B led to my success as a geek. Things like:
- Always wanting to improve the system,
- Searching for truth,
- Wanting my work to matter.
None of those things applied to rote learning T accounts and double entry accounting, but they sure do matter when you are building fantastic tools for web developers to build awesome, award-winning sites with.
So that’s how I ended up becoming the geek t-shirt wearer I am today – although I no longer have those DMs ...
