The best way we thought to do it was Western Union. I tried to send money to a friend in Ukraine at the beginning of the war. We put them through ridiculous leet code questions to validate their expertise, but in reality it’s just us not accepting that anyone could learn what we’ve learned or be as smart as us without going through the same steps. When job descriptions require degrees or XX years of experience it’s gatekeeping to think someone has to go through the same path you did to get where you are.

But that doesn’t mean people can’t use YouTube and free resources to learn the same things and much more. I never would have made the progression I did without the structure of a classroom and a guided path of classes to take over multiple years. Thinking the way you learned was the convention is gatekeeping.

Some people have more things to overcome than others and some learn things more naturally or “unconventionally”.įor many people it’s hard to understand how someone else can learn the same things without using the same resources or taking similar steps in learning. People take a path to learn and achieve things.

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