"[If] you’re doing one of those courses where they’re making you learn shorthand and so on, take some time to learn to code. ... I mean it in the sense of having a nodding acquaintance with methods of programming, and perhaps a few languages, so that when something comes along where you’ll need, say, to transform data from one form to another, you can. Or where you need to make your own life easier by automating some process or other."