Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

Is your environment noisy, or does this help you even in a quiet room?

One was when I realized I should try to do something that I can do to push my boundaries and instead do something I can right now. I'm writing down more koans like this and I might sell it as a deck of inspiration cards.

Another was Quitting Facebook. I tried a bunch of times but wasn't successful but I have been Facebook free for a few months now. I might turn it back on just to get a backup of my data for my own data science projects but I would immediately turn it off.

Yet another keeping a paper notebook with a pen with me at all times. Some notes are better written.

Can you elaborate on the last sentence? Serious question, unsure of the seriousness of statement.

1: Kids. My wife and I waited to get married, and then were part scared after we got married, and part selfish and wanted freedom to play and travel, so we waited more. I don't regret our adventures at all, but after we had kids, I realized my fear was unfounded and we still had a lot of freedom to play and travel.

2: Startup. I wanted to start my own business my whole life, and I waited to try until I had enough of a plan, enough personal savings for a runway, and until the kids weren't toddlers anymore. I wish I had done it a lot sooner, before having kids, and with someone else's money.

Yes, those two kinda contradict each other. :) I don't know how I'd resolve it, were I to do it again. Not sure I would do it any different, my takeaway is just that in both cases I waited because of fears that turned out to be only fear.

Getting a domain expert (which I wasn't) to analyze my solution, long after launching it, and realizing it wasn't the ideal solution.

And blocking the shithole site Reddit until I didn't have the urge to check it.