> If you're 10–20: These are prime years! I lol'd.
He should have said 11-19 to give the statement a double entendre.
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#32One thing that I didn't do at that age and very much regret is to be really conscious of being healthy and physically fit.
That's the right time to learn what you should and shouldn't put in your body, and how to be constantly active. There's a million different ways to accomplish that but it's important to find one.
People at that age often don't really understand how closely linked physical fitness and mental health are. But if you ignore it there will be consequences.
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#33This is probably nit-picking, because I understand the intended message, but the "Aim to read a lot" bit gets me. I've always aimed to read a lot...but rarely manage to actually do it.
Try Audible and audiobooks, it’s easier to fill the commute with sound. You can also add the Kindle app to your smartphone top-4 bar.
kindle app is better
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#34I'm a bit amused by the advice to move to SF because that's what all the other nonconformists are doing.
Aye, I was with this post up until there. SF is not a holy place, despite the general opinion of much of this forum.
I might replace that advice with "be in the city", where "the city" is anywhere that isn't suburbs/rural.
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#35San Francisco is absolutely not Global Weird HQ.
Is this guy unaware of New York?
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#36> If you're 10–20: These are prime years! I lol'd.
Four of them are prime. (-:
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was in SF for the last WWDC, mostly to see and visit these people I keep hearing about. But I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where they were or how to talk to them. I went to WWDC, a couple of meetups, the Computer History Museum, walked through Stanford, ate hummus in Palo Alto, took only public transport or shared Lyft rides. But other than a chance meeting with the CEO of Mode Analytics in one can ride t…
Hang out in front of google or attend the local 2600 meeting. Best way to meet CEOs is to become one yourself.
Sorry, but this is real bad advice. Stalking people in front of Google is not going to work.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Advice is to visit, not to move!
I was in SF for the last WWDC, mostly to see and visit these people I keep hearing about. But I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where they were or how to talk to them. I went to WWDC, a couple of meetups, the Computer History Museum, walked through Stanford, ate hummus in Palo Alto, took only public transport or shared Lyft rides. But other than a chance meeting with the CEO of Mode Analytics in one can ride t…
I think just visiting for a couple of days doesn't work. You need to spend considerable time in SF, at least to build a base for your network.
- You can meet people by emailing them and asking for coffee. A cool thing about SV culture is that people are pretty open for that. - The favorite way I like meeting new people is through friends (friends of friends) at non-work related parties - You can meet people at networking events, but I find that there's a self-selection bias (i.e. interesting people usually don't go there, at least in my experience) - You can just meet people randomly at bars, etc. but that takes some time :-)
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#39"Make things". And put them in front of as many people as possible. Locally you gain knowledge. Wisdom comes with scale ;) Oh, and you guys were great on Bloomberg Studio 1.0! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-05-31/john-patric...
Thanks for sharing this. Great stuff!
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Advice is to visit, not to move!
I was in SF for the last WWDC, mostly to see and visit these people I keep hearing about. But I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where they were or how to talk to them. I went to WWDC, a couple of meetups, the Computer History Museum, walked through Stanford, ate hummus in Palo Alto, took only public transport or shared Lyft rides. But other than a chance meeting with the CEO of Mode Analytics in one can ride t…
If you want to do this, then decide who you want to meet, make a list and email them all to ask to buy them coffee. Maybe 5% will say yes, so email some more...
Note the advice about making friends over the internet. Do that and then ask to say hi.
Reply to the person on this thread who suggested places to go and ask to buy them a coffee.
Don’t go to places, go to people.