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Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by randcraw »

To grow and advance, involve yourself in an essential role on a project’s critical path. That way you make yourself important without having to self-promote, encouraging others to depend on you, so in later projects they’ll come back to you for more.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by djbelieny »

Think, plan and execute long term goals with more sense of urgency because 5 years can go by like it's nothing. Love more, don't shut yourself off into your own arrogance. Listen more, there's wisdom all around you and you definitely do not know it all.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by howeyc »

You will have a bunch of expectations placed on you by your family, your friends, and society at large. Telling you explicitly or implicitly what you should do, what's acceptable, and how you should live your life. It's not their life to live, it's your life, do what you want.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by bsvalley »

Do it here and now! Take all the risks in the world and don't listen to the system. Don't get a 9-5 job right away. Location doesn't matter, failure is a good thing.

In other words, I should have taken the entrepreneurial route right away. My environment wasn't promoting that at all back in the days so it's easy to say today...

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by heavenlyblue »

Shikadi wrote: post #29
131012 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the add on?

Second this, learning multiple languages is generally seen as a good thing, opening your mind to different ways of solving problems, no?

Any language in the area of discourse is a Turing-complete language. Therefore you can do anything you'd like to in any language.

Besides, I would be highly critical of anyone who claims to know a variety of languages since it probably means they are only familiar with a strict subset of their standard libraries and quirks. Or that knowledge is incredibly outdated.

Learning the syntax is one thing, the more time-consuming for development part is always knowing the quirks and patterns used today.

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