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I feel like your description of Facebook is what all the employees who worked on it circa 2004 were envisioning it would become. It seemed so groundbreaking yet so serene. A brand new way to do the same things. I wish we could have all the good without the bad, but I suppose that's what makes this field so insanely hard.
It's just like most things in life: It's good if you consume the right amount.
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The feeling of regret about a past decision is an odd one to me. It's based on the premise that you know with some certainty what would have happened had you taken the opposite choice. That premise is false, you have no idea what would have happened if you had done things differently. Your life could be terrible, your life could be better. You have no way of knowing. I believe the best treatment for it is to make sur…
Logically, you could be completely correct. Had I taken the other path, I may well be sitting here today saying "I massively regret not giving myself enough space to achieve". And you're right, finding satisfaction on your chosen path is really the only way to deal with these types of emotions. But all that being said, I'll fight tooth and nail to stop my kids from making the same mistake I did.
You believe they were mistakes now, with hindsight, for your life, but how do you know whether the same choices that you think were bad for you, might be wonderful for your kids?
I think of it like this: we all have many possible paths to take in life. But we only travel one.
Whenever I feel time anxiety I try to think of Ray Kroc[1] He didn't get started on his version McDonalds until he was 64, an age that many people would be about to retire. I'm not a great fan of McDonalds food but if you can start a company like that at 64 you can start anything at any age. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc
It's worth acknowledging that it was a different world when Ray was 64.