There are certain people who make me feel completely worthless but at the same time give me something to shoot for and motivates me to raise the bar and achieve my goals. These people have almost always been the same age as me or a couple of years older, but for the first time in my life I have come across a dude that is so far ahead of me in life that it makes me feel like I'm twelve.
Francisco Tolmasky is the founder of 280 North, one of the coolest startups I know of, and I recently came across a tweet of his.
Having dinner with @280north @johnhering and @luddep
@luddep is the guy that has been making me feel worthless lately. I've talked a bit with him on IRC and he's a really cool guy, totally down to earth and nice and all. He's a Swedish guy from Uppsala and went to IT Gymnasiet, not that different from my own back-story.
This is what bothers me though; this kid is fucking 18 years old and he's done a bunch of really cool small projects, has time to learn and code Objective-J so much that he's really into the Cappuccino community, and obviously a very talented coder (which would lead him to have dinner with Tolmasky and 280). He's 18 and he's hanging out in San Francisco with some of the most awesome people in the world.
Having dinner with Tolmasky and 280 is to me like having dinner with Justin Bieber is to a 14 year old girl.
And where am I? Living outside a small town in an even smaller town trying to find time to code without failing school. It's a very lighthearted not-that-negative way of feeling worthless. I know the only thing I could possibly do to change things is work harder and be positive. I just felt like complaining a bit and making some excuses.
Edit: Read the follow-up on this blog-post.
