That made for such an in-depth, inspiring read. Thanks for taking the time to write all this up. This is seriously going to inspire many self-taught developers to do the same!
I really hope so. At was very nice to write this out of myself at the end of a very successful year. It ended up being incredibly long (so was the year), but I tried to keep it very much in context. Everyone will have a different story for sure, but themes could be very similar.