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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?
#52Learning to program. Lifting, learning to count calories, healthy habits in general. Staying out of the sun. Moving out of the rust belt. In preparation for moving, moving back in with my parents and getting close with them after a period of about a half decade of taking my family for granted.
> Staying out of the sun
Can you elaborate? I am doing the opposite, because I am almost all the time in the office or gym. I force myself to get as much sun as possible for the Vitamin D and articles associated with it here on Hacker News[1].
Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
#53Moving to the US.
Same here.
Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
#54Deciding as a 13yo that I would be a games developer.
would you share any games you made?
Sure, you can find me here: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,36...
It should also include this: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/nba-inside-drive-2000/... but crediting practices in the games industry sometimes leave a lot to be desired.
I've also done a number of social and mobile games but they are all dead now, and were not much worth digging up anyway.
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#55Acting on the few things that I knew I’d regret if I didn’t try at some point. For me, those were starting a company and living in different countries than I was born in.
Getting thousands of hours of experience in something useful - vocation, hobby, whatever - before I got out of school. I was fortunate that I still loved it and it became a career, but even if it hadn’t, I learned what it takes and feels like to get really good at something.
Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
#561. Maintain relationships with positive winners exclusively.
2. Pass on cushy full-time employment for something riskier
3. Antidepressant
4. NoFap
5. Ovo-lacto-pesci-vegetarianism
6. Start conversations with strangers every day, anyone and everyone. No anxiety, no fear and no fucks given.
7. MGTOW. j/k. Cultivating abundance so there’s little attachment and plenty of options.
8. Not jumping into any commitment milestone too quickly. Also, filtering carefully and firing soon.
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#57Picking 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.
Yes, yes, and yes. I never heard this until way after I picked the wrong partner.
Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here, and I would add, picking the right kids. ;-)
I don't think you 'pick' your kids, unless you foster first... but you can raise them right, and that makes all the difference.
What, they didn’t send you The Catalog? We usually get ours partway through the second trimester.
Re: Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
#59Picking 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.
Yes, yes, and yes. I never heard this until way after I picked the wrong partner.
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#60In unspecified order:
- Maxing out the 401k early
- Marrying the right girl, also not marrying the wrong one
- Ensuring (in my own religious views) my eternal salvation. This one brings great peace of mind.
- Doing volunteer book reviews for programming books. This has opened a great many doors.
- Giving up alcohol after my kids appeared
All these have brought great payoffs. I can't say I made any of these decisions out of wisdom (most were just luck), but I am very happy with the way they've all turned out.