Get diagnosed for adult ADHD.
Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?
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#23Start lifting weights and exercising.
Note this is not dependent on some historical events happening like Apple stock or bitcoin. If you aren’t into fitness now I highly recommend you get into it.
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#24Buy bitcoin. Sell 10% stake each year (dollar cost averaging per day) starting 2015. Also get ripped sooner.
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#25Buy bitcoin. Sell 10% stake each year (dollar cost averaging per day) starting 2015. Also get ripped sooner.
I feel like this is a cheating way to answer the question. Of course hindsight works, but in 2010, what's the way to spot good investments in general, like Bitcoin and Facebook?
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#26Travel more.
If i went back to myself ten years into whats turned into a twenty year career of travel I could agree and also advise travel less...
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#27Get diagnosed for adult ADHD.
Can you tell me how did you go about this, and the impact in your life?
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#28Don’t even think about joining those couple startups as early employee, go straight to FAANG, work on amazing tech and gain your financial freedom.
I've spent the first five years of my career at two FANGs, and I think the grass is greener in terms of amazing tech. Maybe I've been unlucky, but so much of my time is fighting with the enormous weight of the infrastructure to do anything. Builds, deployments, running tests, getting support from internal teams, using internal frameworks are all so stressful and unsatisfying to me. Not to mention I've never even snif…
This sounds like Amazon, Amazon isn't at all comparable to F/N/G or any of the companies you're asking about with the exception of Uber.
Re: Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?
#29Get diagnosed for adult ADHD.
How did you realise that something was wrong and that you needed to go to the doctor?
Re: Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?
#30Value your time and health more. Give time to your family (kids)
Practice / learn
Don’t get angry.
Start meditating sooner