Always good to see a balding brother having success. Thanks for sharing your story.
There's a lot of things that accelerate male pattern baldness it seems. For me, a ****ty relationship, a Master's project, and 80 hour work weeks (two jobs; one bartending outside, one as a data analyst) this past summer put me from NW0 to NW2 in like 8 months. I would at least like to attribute some of it to mental and emotional stress, but who knows, maybe I just have super aggressive male pattern baldness (interesting it waited until 24, and then got super aggressive though).