[dragonwriter]

The biggest problem with this article is that it is -- and this is non-obvious until you've read through the whole thing -- written with a very specific audience in mind. To wit, the audience the article is directed to is people similar to the author in his earlier circumstance while he was still working in finance.

It is assumes that whoever is reading the article is similarly situated to that earlier version of the author both in terms of career circumstance and interests.

This is particularly clear in this excerpt:

I found that there are two types of people that power through the frustration [...] [t]hose that are really intellectually interested in learning to code. If you haven’t learned to code by now, it’s highly unlikely you’re one of them.