Re: Reinventing the wheel on a path to deeper learning

[Cynthia Revström via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

This is good!

I really appreciate it when younger people get attention for actually also
knowing things like this.

If I recall correctly according to Mark Kosters at ARIN, I was the first
person to successfully setup delegated RPKI in ARIN (in production) at the
start of 2020 at age 18.

This is also why I think some of the discussions going on in NANOG atm are
potentially quite good to have.
I have seen many of the younger people in this scene (including Nate) on
Discord with regards to these kinds of topics.

And while Discord is not at all a replacement for mailing lists in my
opinion, I think it's important to realize that it (and other chat based
things like it) have their place, especially among the younger groups.

-Cynthia

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 22:26 NANOG News <news () nanog org> wrote:

> We’d be hard pressed to name many teenagers as thoughtful, curious, and
> open to new experiences as Nate Sales. Now in his junior year at the Catlin
> Gabel School in Portland, Oregon, he has already built, designed, and
> engineered more than most people twice his age. Nate not only manages his
> school’s robotics team, he also developed an app to track on-campus
> movement during COVID 19, coordinates radio communications for the Amateur
> Radio Emergency Service, is a Reliability Engineer at Fosshost, and sits on
> the advisory board of the Emerald Onion — a Seattle nonprofit and encrypted
> transit ISP.
>
> We spoke with Nate recently about his path into tech, and his experience
> presenting at a NANOG conference, where he was — to our collective
> knowledge — the youngest to ever do so. What struck us most was his
> curiosity and willingness to build, dismantle, and rebuild again in the
> name of new discoveries and greater insights; an ethos all of us could
> stand to learn from.
>
> Read the Feature - Read the Feature
> <https://nanog.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4d708401d0e69d9dc73d1c204&id=7bdc90facb&e=db9654bbbb>