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Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by andrei_says_ » Thu, May 10, 2018, 8:22 PM UTC

tmaly wrote: post #98

andrei_says_ wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dwell in this question while noticing the people around you. Approach the ones you truly admire (not the ones you envy). One in n will be open to a conversation. Feed the relationships that give you the space to be yourself and seem to want from you the contributions you love giving. Being yourself means being vulnerably honest with the aspects of yourself which you don’t yet love. I think that’s most obvious with ar…

I think at a much younger age I had more flexibility and time to do this. I still think it is a worthy pursuit.

Look at it this way: it doesn’t take more time to notice the presence of a certain color in your surroundings.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by GFischer » Thu, May 10, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

Mc_Big_G wrote: post #67

Kissing ass at work is more important that anything else regarding advancement.

That's only true for some companies (to be fair, most of them).

If you're on companies that are actually creating value, in a position where you're creating value, this is not that stark.

You can be more charitable and use stuff outlined on How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie rather than actual ass-kissing.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by gesman » Fri, May 11, 2018, 2:44 AM UTC

bashar.org

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by 131012 » Fri, May 11, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

heavenlyblue wrote: post #49

Shikadi wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Or that knowledge is incredibly outdated.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-cons…

I'll ponder on that. Thanks for the shared wisdom!

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by gesman » Fri, May 11, 2018, 2:52 AM UTC

Better ask for forgiveness than for permission

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by appleaday1 » Sun, May 13, 2018, 1:38 AM UTC

Fucking uninstall SETI/BOINC and install Bitcoin miners and delegate all computational power to just mining.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by wink » Sun, May 13, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

Don't give up trying to learn skateboarding, you might regret it 20 years later :)

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by zuzuleinen » Fri, May 18, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

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It's a collection of mostly life lessons I find interesting similar to comments from here.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by oulous » Fri, May 18, 2018, 2:23 PM UTC

strictnein wrote: post #30

You aren't busy. You just feel busy. Find time to do interesting things, because once you have kids you'll find out what being busy actually means.

Having a kid means caring for an incontinent, schizophrenic, homeless person that cant feed itself.

Re: Ask HN: Advice to your younger self

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Post by punjsingh » Fri, May 18, 2018, 4:08 PM UTC

- Stop worrying. - You will live many lives, and will follow your own path leading to many places, rarely to the destination you intended to when you started. - You will never be completely content, but will start to enjoy the journey more as you age. - The path to being materially rich is long and may not necessarily bring you happiness you thought it would. Also that rich is a relative word, its meaning changes as you get more. - Your real earning would be people you meet and stories you have to tell of your journey. - Empathy will be your best gift to the world. - You will die living, with still a passion left to live 100 more lives in your heart :)

https://www.quora.com/I%E2%80%99m-a-25-year-old-who-has-a-lo...