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Realise that the advice is nonsense and baldness has no meaningful impact on your life. Go bald and be happy.

So the advice is don't listen people who post on HeyFromTheFuture? It doesn't surprise me but it's self defeating.

Genuine advice is often coloured by a person's own bias and experience, and if another takes it without taking that into consideration, they will be misled by the same faults.

In this case, the advice about baldness is a joke based on a negative stereotype for baldness, and not genuine advice at all. The default response in this post appears to be along the lines of preventing or reversing hair loss, showing support for the stereotype, and that people are taking the content at least a little bit seriously. I'm just here to say this particular piece of 'advice' is misleading at best and harmful at worst. Baldness will only affect your happiness if you let it.

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

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It 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…

When I was your age, and extremely worried about climate change, I went to live on an ecovillage with like minded people trying to demonstrate a lower-impact lifestyle. It was terrific, highly recommended! You might find visiting a few to be a satisfying way to connect with likeminded folks. The one I lived on was a secular, rural-US community with at the time pretty intense covenants [0] but there are lots, with wid…

I once reached to Dancing Rabbit as an 18 year old! I was so interested in their concepts and wanted to join, but then I went elsewhere with my life.
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