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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
by William Finnegan
ISBN: 0143109391
Found in 1 comment on Hacker News
jgwil2
· 2020-01-11 ·
Original thread
According to William Finnegan in
Barbarian Days
[0], people who start after age 14 or so have close to zero chance of becoming proficient.
[0]
https://www.amazon.com/Barbarian-Days-Surfing-William-Finneg...
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Barbarian-Days-Surfing-William-Finneg...