Forget ‘hello world’, say ‘hello wealth’

ABOUT a decade ago, some young and unfortunate soul made the mistake of asking me for career advice.

“Learn to code,” I’d said breezily. “Knowing programming languages is as essential as knowing the English language,” said I, whose knowledge of programming amounted to printing “Hello world”.

I hope he ignored me and became a data centre technician or a professional pickleball player instead, because boy, has my career advice aged poorly.