Isn't one of the problems though that people in the younger age brackets don't tend to listen to older people? I remember in University I was a mentor, and my mentees would usually be blaise about most things. Only when they were seniors would they panic about job prospects.
Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age
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#92"Hey 37 year old, Remember it’s never easier on the other side of the fence no matter how green it is." Welp, thanks for the inspiration :D
Hey 37 year old, did you remember your age, or did you have to do the maths to work it out?
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#93I like the idea, some thoughts.. Every year seems a little much? Maybe at young age, but 21/22/23 doesn't really make that much of a difference, or even 40/45 The advice should be written for the perspective of the reader not the writer: "Hey 13 year old, don't stop learning how to play piano" How would that help a 13 year old? Something like "Hey 13 year old, I stopped playing the piano at your age and now I'm regre…
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.”
A few of my friends started going bald in their early 20s... whoops
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"Don't care about going bald" is even better.
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#95This reminds me very much of the video How To Age Gracefully [1]. One thing I think is missing is a "From: a x year old" for each bit of advice. I think the advice to someone in their 20's would be quite different coming from someone in their 30's vs 70's, and that in itself could be very interesting. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sycgL3Qg_Ak 4m40s
Interesting video. Some advice seems person-specific over age-specific, as in, I wouldn't be surprised to hear them give the same advice five years prior or hence.
One area where I think future advice can be most helpful is in preventing hard-to-reverse mistakes. 18F's data release for college completion rates, employment rates, etc in 2012 may have helped people avoid bad decisions[0]. Another example could be increased wariness of using a drug after hearing personal stories of people trying to quit. Using the recently shared visualization of related subreddits[1] and looking at the "/r/askdrugs" graph, one can see Kratom and quittingkratom, phenibut and quitting phenibut, benzodiazapines and quittingbenzos, opiates and quittingopiates.
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#96It is shocking how much of this advice assumes that the world will be a similar place even a few years from now.
There is a constant set of themes, for each of the years I scanned but especially my age which is 23, to travel, invest for the future, and start businesses and I am increasingly skeptical of each.
I am just starting out, and I am here because I used to think that my future involved travel and startups, but recent news has made it clear to me that travel is one of the human obsessions that is destroying this world and that the future will not happen: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-...
My advice, for all age groups, is to enjoy what you have now and don't have kids- the world even 10-20 years from now isn't one worth living in.
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#97How about upvoting by age group. For example take advice from a 40 yo to a 20 yo, the 20 yos may not upvote but many other 40 yos may upvote the advice.
Would love to see the distribution of up votes. Do 60 yos agree with the advice the 40 yo is giving the 20 yo?
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#98"Sorry, It looks like nobody has submitted advice for age 80 yet. Try being the first"
"Try" sounds funny in the context of me being an 80 year old (just testing for the octogenarians who are desperate for advice :) I'm not quite 80)
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#99It would be interesting if the upvotes have age statistics, e.g. of the upvotes for this advice to 30 year old, 15 are from 35 year old, 20 from 43 years old, etc
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#100It is shocking how much of this advice assumes that the world will be a similar place even a few years from now. There is a constant set of themes, for each of the years I scanned but especially my age which is 23, to travel, invest for the future, and start businesses and I am increasingly skeptical of each. I am just starting out, and I am here because I used to think that my future involved travel and startups, bu…
You don't sound like you're enjoying anything.