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Most of the "Release your code" section is about how you should put your code in public because in makes you do the extra effort to write a better implementation.

> but that didn't earn him his PhD nor would it have gotten him tenure.

He doesn't have tenure. He works at a private organisation. We don't know how he landed it, but I think his internet famous helped.

In the "Don't play the game" section, which is where I think you got the "don't teach"-thing, he writes:

> but I did them anyway, I would do it the same way again, and here I am encouraging others to as well.

How you read this as anything but an encouragement to teach, write software and blogging is a mystery to me.



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