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I think* every technocrat has a teacher or mentor who enables them to level up on a subject matter.

Am I alone in this feeling?

Zuck had a world class programmer teaching giving him coding lessons when he was young.

that's not true, some of us are autodidacts. We get help sure, I was helped a lot on newsgroups when learning but we haven't all had mentors.

As an autodidact I will only note that you can learn at pace (given intelligence and aptitude) only so long as you give it 110%. That extra 10% wears on you. Eventually you will not be able to keep up. The old saying is 'learn from others mistakes'; being self taught leaves you open to not understanding others mistakes and learning a lot from your own. Time++.

I've found there are many auto-didacts in programming.

I haven't found that for any lab science or engineering for that matter. I wonder why...

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