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Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?

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Re: Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?

#25

Buy 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?

Re: Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?

#28

Don’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.
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