I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
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#2A writer is having a mid-life crisis?
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#3I chuckled
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#4Paradoxically, when I had all the time in the world I frittered it away on video games and the internet.
Now that I have multiple kids and my time is extremely constrained, I am very efficient with my time usage. I listen to audiobooks while doing the dishes. I plan in my mind exactly which programming tasks I want to accomplish as soon as the kids are in bed so that I can do them quickly and still have time to spend with my wife.
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#5Get out there and write your ideas down. It's never too late to start. Edit. You have good ideas if you cultivate that skill of having ideas.
Someday you'll find an idea you like that hasn't been done before and you'll kill it.
At least that's what I tell myself :-)
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#6Let me guess: liberal arts degree with tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) in loans. Living in an extremely expensive city. Dating other unserious romantic people with no plans for a family, who could afford one anyway?
I wish we (and people in similar situations) were more honest about these bad decisions. We need to warn our young people against falling into similar traps. It’s not victim blaming, it’s just honesty about what’s happening.
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#7Paradoxically, when I had all the time in the world I frittered it away on video games and the internet. Now that I have multiple kids and my time is extremely constrained, I am very efficient with my time usage. I listen to audiobooks while doing the dishes. I plan in my mind exactly which programming tasks I want to accomplish as soon as the kids are in bed so that I can do them quickly and still have time to spend…
A mentor once told me “if you want something done quickly, give it to a busy person”
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#8It seems really bad that I relate to parts of this even though I am still not 25.
I mean things are good with me, I am grateful for everything I have. But once in a while I just feel really empty and that I could be doing way more that I am doing right now rather than lazing around. We are a weird generation for sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#9Paradoxically, when I had all the time in the world I frittered it away on video games and the internet. Now that I have multiple kids and my time is extremely constrained, I am very efficient with my time usage. I listen to audiobooks while doing the dishes. I plan in my mind exactly which programming tasks I want to accomplish as soon as the kids are in bed so that I can do them quickly and still have time to spend…
If you have twenty minutes now, and don’t know when you’ll get another twenty minutes, why not do it now?
When you have hours and hours available for the rest of the week, why fret about it? You have so many other opportunities ahead.
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#10Paradoxically, when I had all the time in the world I frittered it away on video games and the internet. Now that I have multiple kids and my time is extremely constrained, I am very efficient with my time usage. I listen to audiobooks while doing the dishes. I plan in my mind exactly which programming tasks I want to accomplish as soon as the kids are in bed so that I can do them quickly and still have time to spend…
A mentor once told me “if you want something done quickly, give it to a busy person”
Wow. That is a great line.