Someone as far ahead of the curve as you clearly are might enjoy the second chapter of Coders at Work, which is an interview with Brad Fitzpatrick. bfitz wrote everything from memcached to big chunks of TailScale and much in between.

He went to university in CS but would have been bored to sleep if he didn’t have something else going on, so he founded and ran LiveJournal simultaneously.

I bet someone on this thread knows him and I bet he’d take the time to offer some pointers to an up-and-comer like yourself. I’ve never met him, but I did some business with Six Apart in a previous life and people say he’s a really nice guy.

Either way, keep it up!