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Ask HN: What's one bit of advice you'd give to your younger self?
Thinking more along the lines of personal & professional development.
- ankurdhama 9y agoPractice and learn critical thinking using first principles.
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 9y agoany books suggestions?
- ankurdhama 9y agotry "think fast and slow"
- oldmancoyote 9y agoFew worthwhile efforts are successful on the first attempt. Failure is just another useful metric giving guidance for the next effort. Guilt has nothing to do with failure.
- bartvk 9y agoStart saving. There may come a time when you want to work on your own projects. And it would be awesome to be financially independent.
- gamechangr 9y agoThere are so many of these threads...you may not get any response...so here's a good one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372573
- king_kerr 9y agoThanks
- daimajia 9y agoBuy Bitcoin！haha
- tmnvix 9y agoYou are not too old.
- bhu1st 9y agoI'd remind myself to set a quantitative and measurable goal every once in a while.
- fujvvvv 9y agoWorkout daily.
- gt2 9y agoAlways finish your projects and leave them in some workable state so you have more projects to show or just look back on.
- brudgers 9y agoI am not as smart or as cool as I think I am...or rather, other people are smarter and cooler than I think they are. The women are better looking than I think and it's better to be nicer and kinder. Good luck.
- shambolicfrolic 9y agoDon't count on the world being as advertised.
- cm2012 9y agoBe more thoughtful to my wife.
- aregsarkissian 9y agoDon't ever borrow money.
- pasbesoin 9y agoGuard your health! It is the foundation of happiness. For the young (post-)entrepreneur HN tends to idolize, it is also the basis of your productivity.
- MichaelBurge 9y agoGet started now.
- SirLJ 9y agoStart looking into quantitative stock trading systems, invest the time to find a winning strategy + sound risk management and the compound interest will make you a very rich person (reach person = someone who makes more money that he needs to spend without working more than few hours a week if any), I really wish I started 20 years earlier...
- sordidasset 9y agoAny advice on where to look? I majored in finance because I thought this is what I would learn. Instead they told me to trust in DDM. Waste of money.
- sordidasset 9y agoDon't get the finance degree. Everything they teach you will be theory that is literally from the 1950s and has been empirically proven incorrect. Almost all the jobs open to you will require you to be fundamentally dishonest. Go for a math or CS degree.