I'm going to assume plenty of you 'financially fit' happy hackers will simply opt-out of this experiment altogether because pre-optimization is the root of all evil, and if you're content enough with what you've done and contributed to then there really isn't much to fix, right? Don't fix it (your younger and more incompetent self, or X) if it (the difference between your current level of competence and X) ain't broken?
Your lesson plan doesn't have to pertain to programming or coding, but it should instead refactor some negative or inefficient pattern of thinking. I am going to apply one constraint though, you must assume your former self has transcended the stage of incompetence of not knowing they don't know; so IOW, your former self is in complete submission to your authority since they realize what they want and know that they don't know what you have, which should essentially alter what your younger self will become, more efficient, better than you.
My original intention, of what started as a simple query trolling CS and EE types who have a lot of experience developing system at the level. Trolling or not, I really just wanted to induce some reflective discourse, insights, and words of wisdom to become more competent writing on a level I'm unfamiliar with. Instead I ended up with this very detailed, verbose, hypothetical, thought-experiment, which started to remind me, half-way through, of an xkcd comic on learning to program.
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