Story Time: How I became a mentor and why I wish I had started sooner
Jeff Codes Things Tl;Dr: This blog has nary a theme at the time of this post but if you only want CS stuff here is the link. Beginning My mentoring journey has started many times, in many phases of my adult life. Most recently, it started when a friend convinced me to sign up for a rewards credit card. Before that, it started when a co-worker put together a non-profit to teach high school students how to code and (thankfully for me) asked for help. Going back further, it began when I was a TA in grad school; helping people understand threat surfaces, stack discipline, and adversarial models. The time before that, and the earliest I think I could reasonably call myself a mentor, was when I took a job tutoring student athletes while I was in undergrad. Each experience was rewarding, and each time my mentoring stopped with what seemed like a logical conclusion. Graduation put an end to the first two. Then moving away from Boston, where the non-profit was based, m