[stock-throwaway]

A different topic entirely but: how did you find a mentor / someone to mentor? That relationship has always been curious and elusive to me

[BaseballPhysics]

Alas, I wish I had good advice here, but honestly, I just got extremely lucky.

When I first got hired (at a very small startup) the hiring manager was an utterly brilliant former Bell Labs guy who'd made his way through a couple of prior startups, and he served as a mentor of mine for many many years after.