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Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Re: Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Post by mLuby »

zrobotics wrote: post #58
mLuby wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So how is their retirement plans coming along? Someone has been watching too many financial planning commercials. And is assuming life expectancy will continue to outpace retirement age a few decades out. And struggling with the close-minded back home after travel isn't a good reason not to do it.

>>And struggling with the close-minded back home after travel isn't a good reason not to do it Why is traveling now considered such an absolute good that it is impossible to criticize it, or to assume that it will automatically make people more open-minded? The parent posters point was that traveling won't make everyone well-adjusted and open-minded. I find it silly to claim that everyone will benefit, there surely m…

Interesting point; travel does come across as rather unassailable.

By way of analogy: it's fine to take the first job you're offered and work there until you retire. If you took a new job, you'd have to learn new skills and deal with new coworkers, a new work culture. And should you return to your old company after the new one, you might try to incorporate skills, processes, or attitudes from the other place you found beneficial, changes which the old guard may not appreciate (but management should).

Re: Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Post by hart_russell »

oakio wrote: post #31

I clicked on a few ages and saw advice from someone that was the exact age. To me, those are pointless in this context. Maybe restrict posting to posters that are >= 10 years older than the age?

10 years is too much. I'm 26 and am busting my ass to get a good GRE score, because I didn't care about GPA in college because I thought I'd never want to go to grad school. Left a comment for 18 years old to take college seriously.

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Post by sitkack »

reverend_gonzo wrote: post #59
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #57

> Hey 35 year old, be aware of spent your half life Don't need my coffee, found my morning anxiety!

I beg to differ with that statement. I'd say life doesn't really begin until you're on your own, so around 18 for me, but I'd really say that life picked up around the late 20s, early 30s. So, at 37, if I look at everything that I've done in the last 10 years, and now knowing what I want to do, I've still got three lives to live.

Life begins as soon as you can make conscious choices in what to think about. Things that look like adulthood to us used to start at about 10-12.

Maturity, focus, concentration, self confidence all ebb and flow with time and aren't guaranteed to be monotonic. Civilization allows us to do great things, but it also enables the individual to be a weaker total person while being particularly skilled in one area.

Re: Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

sitkack wrote: post #84
reverend_gonzo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I beg to differ with that statement. I'd say life doesn't really begin until you're on your own, so around 18 for me, but I'd really say that life picked up around the late 20s, early 30s. So, at 37, if I look at everything that I've done in the last 10 years, and now knowing what I want to do, I've still got three lives to live.

Life begins as soon as you can make conscious choices in what to think about. Things that look like adulthood to us used to start at about 10-12. Maturity, focus, concentration, self confidence all ebb and flow with time and aren't guaranteed to be monotonic. Civilization allows us to do great things, but it also enables the individual to be a weaker total person while being particularly skilled in one area.

> Civilization allows us to do great things, but it also enables the individual to be a weaker total person while being particularly skilled in one area.

Is that actually the case? I feel like a hunter/gatherer society isn't particularly well rounded - it's just a couple of skills that one lives or dies on. I wouldn't say that a caveman was well rounded, instead they were just ignorant of everything outside of "find something to eat and kill, then mate with something else".

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Post by akiselev »

gowld wrote: post #39
chrismeller wrote: post #10

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I would add to the primer text that you should be sincere, it’s already got a lot of less than helpful stuff in it... “Don’t go bald, bald people aren’t happy.”

There aer treatments for hair loss that can slow but not reverse progression of baldness. "Don't go bald" is actionable.

There are also surgical robots (Restoration Robotics) that do hair transplants without leaving ugly scars.

Re: Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Post by ryry »

Arubis wrote: post #12

Conceptually, this is really appealing, though I agree with sibling comments that offering some grouping would ease browsing. What I’m finding interesting is the metacommentary on what your userbase (which I’m presuming is mostly HN at the moment) looks like. The advice for teens and twenty somethings is wide-ranging and pretty good. Almost everything for folks in their thirties is pithy and reads like it was written…

Hey this is a great idea. When I get a free chance I'll see if I can publish a report on it. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Post by SyneRyder »

gowld wrote: post #45
SyneRyder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is there any advice that applies at 13 but not 14? I can think of some advice that is specific to an age. If you're going to apply for an overseas working holiday visa, you want that last chance reminder at age 28 or 29... because once you hit 30 you're no longer eligible. But I agree in general about age ranges. I like the idea of the user choosing their exact age, but it'd be better if the person giving the advic…

Wow, that's rather regressive. http://global-goose.com/travel-tips/working-holiday-visas-fo...

Huh, I learned something new today:

"Canada and Australia have signed a mutual agreement that allows young Canadians between the ages of 18 and 35 to travel and work in Australia for up to 12 months. (The age limit used to be 30, but it was increased to 35 in 2018)."

Canadians appear to be a special exception though. If you're Australian, most countries still limit you to age 30 (and Cyprus & South Korea limit you to 25 or younger, apparently):

https://global-goose.com/working-holiday-visas-for-australia...

Re: Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Post by elliekelly »

hart_russell wrote: post #83
oakio wrote: post #31

I clicked on a few ages and saw advice from someone that was the exact age. To me, those are pointless in this context. Maybe restrict posting to posters that are >= 10 years older than the age?

10 years is too much. I'm 26 and am busting my ass to get a good GRE score, because I didn't care about GPA in college because I thought I'd never want to go to grad school. Left a comment for 18 years old to take college seriously.

Hey 26 year old, save yourself the $50,000+ and skip grad school. The work experience you can get instead is far more valuable.
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