The Industry Decided to Harvest Users. I Decided to Build for Myself.

I started writing code in 1981 on a Commodore VIC-20. I was 11 years old. Not because I had a plan, not because I saw a career path, I was only 11 after all, but because computers were the most interesting thing I&rsquo;d ever encountered. I couldn&rsquo;t stop thinking about them and the endless possibilities that they represented. By the time I was 14 I was writing BBS software and had landed my…