Growing up in a typical strict African household always had a very clear structure, well at least for me. There were rules. Not suggestions. Not “best practices.” Rules. You never really negotiated them, you just executed them. You woke up early. You went to school. You came back on time. You didn’t always get the chance to “try things.” You mostly followed instructions. If you messed up, there was usually a very immediate feedback loop. Let’s just call it… real-time debugging . ("Kiboko") Now fast forward to adulthood (or campus life, which feels like a soft launch into adulthood). Suddenly: No one is asking where you are You can sleep at 3AM and call it “freedom” Food is no longer provided;it’s a budgeting problem And somehow, people are going out on weekdays like it’s normal("sherehe polite") It feels like moving from a tightly controlled environment into an open-world sandbox with no manual. And that’s exactly how learning JavaScript felt after coming from Go.…