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Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?
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Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?
#72Don't worry about trying to impress people. Just work hard on things you like. Don't get into debt.
Some businesses are impossible to start without debt.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
"don't waste your college years" precisely...two chicks at the same time. don't blow it. College is the absolute best time to achieve this with just a bottle of vodka instead of needing to become a millionaire.
Am I allowed to disagree and say that I'm one of the rare males who doesn't find the prospect of sex remotely interesting unless I really care about the girl? I've tried getting shitfaced and hooking up, and even at my drunkest I find the prospect entirely repulsive. As a freshman: I'm not really into the whole "college experience" thing. I've been in better situations before. A friend and I are making our start-up,…
To each his own.
I'll have my girls, you have you startup :).
Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?
#74Cheer up. The people who say that your teenage years are the best in your life are the same folks that are beating you up, and life goes downhill fast for them after graduation.
Hear, hear. Your arch nemesis will end up with a kid, no money and a job as a male stripper before the ripe age of 22.
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#75I'd probably just give myself a sports betting almanac. Until you asked that question I never fully appreciated Back to the Future 2.
Would sports be fun if you already knew what was going to happen?
Speaking of gambling. I'm going to Vegas for a week during March Madness. Let me know if you'll be in town for a poker tournament.
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#76Ideas don't really matter, only execution does.
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#77Smoke weed, you pansy!
Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?
#78Paraphrasing Rand, I think I would tell my younger self: Do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of your life, nor to any part of your energy, nor to any creation of yours, no matter how large their number nor how great their need.
Personally, I think I spent too much time in a futile effort to please parents and relatives and so forth. Later in life, I find that is not only a futile effort, it can also make one completely miserable, since one is not being one's truest self, but is acting as one perceives others want them to act or be. Reading Rand, I find that mistake is a common but grave mistake, underlying societal decay in much of history, namely, the mistake of living for others instead of oneself. So yeah, that would basically be it. If I could reach back a decade, and tell a copy of myself in a Everett-Wheeler parallel universe one thing, that would be it, the above paraphrase from 'The Fountainhead'. :-)
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#79It's a cute idea, but I'd sincerely hope my past-self would never listen to anything I have to say now and instead figure it out for himself. I thought a lot of crazy stuff then - probably still do - and I liked it that way.
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#80Don't worry about trying to impress people. Just work hard on things you like. Don't get into debt.
What if working hard on what I like could potentially get me into debt? Or what if I like to impress people?