How it began
When I was a kid, my sister’s boyfriend told me my dad would never understand programming. That Christmas, my parents gave me a ZX81 kit computer. I put it together myself, taught myself to program on it, and wrote two games.
The man who said my dad wouldn’t understand ended up buying them. He added a title screen to each one and bundled them on a cassette tape with several other games to resell. My parents handled the business side; I was just a kid. What I remember is coming home from school and finding my bank book on the table, the little ledger the bank stamped with every deposit.
I thought I was rich. I was immediately addicted to writing code.
What came next
That addiction never wore off. It led to companies I founded, products that led their markets, and systems that organizations still depend on. The project briefs tell those stories.