Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)
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Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)
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Re: Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)
#2The irony is that to 95% of Americans he's led a very successful life.
Not that I don't understand the point. It's all relative.
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#3someone needs a reality check.
if he considers that kind of life "failure", he is going to lead a very depressed life unless he wins a few lotteries
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#4Why are none of the sentences capitalized? It makes it difficult to read (so I didn't finish it).
What I did read wasn't very interesting anyway, so no big loss.
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#5Great post Dave, and somewhat inspiring for someone nearing the end of their twenties who feels like he's only just hitting his straps now.
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#6Dave McClure is a Get for Dustin Curtis' Svbtle network.
It's fun to watch this thing develop.
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#7Well he's not a late bloomer to the vast majority of people.
I think no matter your lot in life, if you're competitive, you get the feeling that you missed out on a lot that you could have accomplished. Stories of kids learning programming at 6, or starting companies at 16, etc, feed into this.
Even I feel like I would be much farther "ahead" if I had only started programming before high school, if I had been more gung-ho about college, if I had gone to California in 2010 after graduation instead of remaining in New Hampshire. I don't even know any programmers in person outside of my work. My "network" isn't something to put on a pedestal.
And yet by all accounts I live an extremely comfortable life, I wrote enough to get noticed and get a book deal just two years out of college, my friends think I'm of superhuman intellect, I'm able to walk to work every day, etc.
I think the kind of worry in this post is a response to the world born out of hyper-competitiveness, and I don't think its a healthy one. It's not a positive message, and the events that could turn it into a positive message for this person, the qualifications for "not being a loser", should never involve anything five or six sigma from the norm.
Look around you and relax. You've probably already won.
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#8I'm not quite sure what the point of this blog post is. I guess it's to re-start his blog, and restarting a blog often lacks a good hook, and may be heavy on the backstory. Hopefully this is a starting point, not a destination.
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#9Sounds to me like he is suffering from a social comparison bias. A few peers may have done better than he, but I am sure there are those out there that would say he has done pretty good.
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#10Why are none of the sentences capitalized? It makes it difficult to read (so I didn't finish it). What I did read wasn't very interesting anyway, so no big loss.
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