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Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?

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Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?

#13
Picking the right spouse.

Edit: Picking the wrong partner can be catastrophic financially and emotionally. Pick someone you can trust, rely on, and who compliments your strengths and weaknesses. Be prepared to go to great lengths for them when necessary.

Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?

#16

Picking the right spouse. Edit: Picking the wrong partner can be catastrophic financially and emotionally. Pick someone you can trust, rely on, and who compliments your strengths and weaknesses. Be prepared to go to great lengths for them when necessary.

Same here, and I would add, picking the right kids. ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?

#17

Like most decisions that turned out to be good financially, it was purely by luck. * Buying real estate... a lot of it * Staying out of the stock market until after 2009... then leveraging and buying a lot of stocks * Playing inverse volatility until 2017... missed out on the VIX termination event in Feb 2018 Some things that didn’t turn out well: * Crappy career. Had to quit after many years of training to get there…

Can you elaborate on the career?

Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?

#18
It's difficult to answer because we don't know what we the roads not taken would have been.

For me, the best decision was to move to a foreign country. My life has been much more exciting in so many ways. One of my regrets is that I could have done it sooner.

Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?

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post #17

Like most decisions that turned out to be good financially, it was purely by luck. * Buying real estate... a lot of it * Staying out of the stock market until after 2009... then leveraging and buying a lot of stocks * Playing inverse volatility until 2017... missed out on the VIX termination event in Feb 2018 Some things that didn’t turn out well: * Crappy career. Had to quit after many years of training to get there…

Can you elaborate on the career?

It wasn’t tech related. Highly regulated and unfortunately quite unnecessarily politicized.
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