KaiserSanchez

I second everyone that suggested finding a tech meetup. Join a couple of them in your location and stick with the best one.

Make friends with a couple of locals who've already "done it". And maybe switch out some of the business books for podcasts that are of immediate relevance to your chosen field.

"I really do wonder if we might benefit from teaching programming like a trade discipline instead of expecting devs to do a degree like computer science."

Or some type of hybrid program.

Shades of the Breaking Bad finale. 150 meters - is that considered a far distance for an assassination of this magnitude?

Yeah - more or less - but a pyramid scheme thrives on recruitment of new members. In case of MLM it's more of a bonus.

"Miracle Milly" was born in 2011 and as of 2018 was still alive. Apparently a "controversial Korean laboratory" has successfully cloned her 49 times for a commercial breeder.