Ask HN: You're 27 again. What would you do differently?

Live a life of "No RAGRETS" so you dont have to think of being "27" again...

I am 26 so I have no advise to give...

Thanks for posting. I like reading the responses to these. Admittedly, in part to see if I'm on target with my goals of min-maxing life compared to other's experiences.

Though, I suspect that a side effect of taking good general advice from those more experienced than you is that you might miss out on, or never learn to identify exceptional specific advice that few are able to provide.

Since starting a business is a common topic I see in these threads across the internet, my two cents: 27 for me is just flipping the calendar back. I started a business in my late 20s. I still should have done it sooner.

But, I believe there's a threshold. You need the experience to do the business, but you still want to be in a place where you don't have enough experience to get up and run the business when you start without doing some homework along the way: I don't think you want to be figuring out LLC paperwork, general liability, and payroll in your 30s.

You can do all of that in your early 20s, and if I were to give advice to my younger self, do it before you turn 25. As young as possible, even if you're still in high school and keep working full-time jobs as an employee into your 20s for household cash safety, stuffing away as much as you can.

I think the latter owner of Designer News started his ventures at 18 and mentioned to members there that his progression simply looked like delegating more and more to others until he got where he was.

In general, I think these threads are useful to young people, but they're not a source of exceptional advice.

They're a source of good foundational advice like spend time with your family, don't spend beyond your means, save, work hard.

Not go all in on the Macromedia Director Lingo + perl cgi scripting stack. It was not the future of interactive media like I thought it was at the time.

Will tinder exist when I get my re do?

I had changed careers and gotten out of computers (IT and dev) at about that age. I should have stayed kept out of computers instead of coming back to them.