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I think you're projecting. The simpler explanation is what he says, "although [Amazon has] thousands of books explaining how a construction site works, and hundreds of books explaining how farms work, they did not have any books that explained what I did [as a programmer]".

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That may be his intention. But an author is not in full control over how a reader will interpret his work. And there is no doubt that a lot of people will read this work as if it is a tool for teaching their child coding, rather than as a way to teach them about what it is they do all day.

Maybe it's a mix of both. I think it's a huge stretch to say the author or this book is weighing in on nature vs nurture and genetics vs practice debates though.

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