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Saying "I shouldn't bother with trying X because of reasons XYZ" is indeed a bad idea, but I try not to do that, and I think I've been decently successful. Is there anything that I…

True, thanks for the advice. Sorry if I got upset, I had just finished reading some other comments which seem to say that the only things worth doing in life are getting wasted and…

"You'll be disabused of this implicit notion that you are always right at some point." Please tell me where I have ever said or implied that I was always right, or even right most …

Tinkering with wheels is indeed fun (I have done some tinkering with existing OSs). A hundred world-class minds over six decades really is a lot.

I get along with other people (I'm not a social outcast or anything), I just don't do very much with most of them because we're not interested in the same things. Is that wrong? Sh…

"Sorry, but you're not going to be able to get a finance internship and a research internship and a coding internship at the same time, while also becoming a writer." Of course not…

"Stop trying to look smart." Look smart to who? I studiously avoid mentioning any of this to anyone at my school for fear of seeming arrogant. "It has the intellectual content of a…

I don't get why, but it seems that few people here are interested in any of the same things I am. It's not like my interests are narrow; indeed, people criticize me for being too m…

I think "give it time" is good advice if you have a project which is not very successful now but is on the ground running and is growing quickly, but I can't think of anything I'm …

Background: I'm 18 years old, American, and attend an Ivy League college. It seems that I've tried to do a very long list of things, but that none of them ever actually succeed. So…