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> Despite being a smart person, I've never been the kind of A type personality who does well at school. The environment just doesn't suit me.

That's a feature. The fact that we expect kids to wake up at 7am, sit and pay attention in silence for hours is mindbogglingly absurd. For a decade after leaving school, I had residual semi-PTSD after getting home from work, with the feeling that I had to study or prepare homework for the next day. Our education system basically is long-term conditioning to create the perfect desk worker, the well-oiled cog for the Machine. I don't think I've spent more than 10 hours studying in my entire school career.

FWIW I got ADHD too. My crush once berated me by saying "you're so smart, why don't you put a little effort in your studies?" I dropped one year before graduation, so effectively I never finished high school and spent a sabbatical year smoking weed, chatting on IRC and writing a hobby OS. Good times.

https://github.com/1player/klesh

Fuck schools. Maths was alright, but the only class I truly loved was philosophy.

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i thought your story sounded familiar so i checked and definitely remember klesh aha! i was actively working on a toy os around the same time and staying up all night on irc

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Where did you hear about it? IIRC I mostly hung about on Italian-speaking IRC servers, and I must've mentioned it a couple times on the OSDev forums. I'm not sure, it's been almost 20 years now, and it's all lost in a haze of marijuana smoke :)

From that era I remember TriangleOS, SkyOS (with that fancy GUI) and Unununium (was it the Python OS? I only remember the Hans Reiser quote on the home page) It was such a buzzing scene.