A risk-averse approach is safe in the short term and self-destructive in the long term. And not the fun kind of self-destructive. The slow, crippling, succumbing to death at 24 without realizing it until 42 self-destructive. No thanks.

Just as anybody who dedicates their life to music has at one point imagined themself as an international rockstar, anybody who willfully dedicates their life to the Internet has at one point imagined themselves being beyond a boss; being part of something magical.

In case you don’t know, Facebook announced sweeping changes to their strategy and technology at their f8 conference on Wednesday. If you’re a stakeholder in a business with any web presence whatsoever, you can’t afford to ignore this fundamental shift.

What you need to do early is get comfortable with uncertainty and confident in your ability to seek and find the information you need. The internal workings of your computer can be a paralyzingly daunting subject at first, but that very computer also provides the tools that allow you to comprehend it at a rate unavailable in other fields.

You need to start getting to know how to use a text editor as Drake says “sooner than later”. As such I couldn’t justify going any further without teaching you how to use my best friend in the robot world, emacs.