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Ask HN: What's the best advice you've ever received?
It could be on life, programming or even startups; what's the best advice that you've received and acted on? How did it make your life better?
- mbenjaminsmith 16y agoBelieve it or not, pg's 'do what you love'. It caused me a lot of pain (giving up a perfectly good career and a business I had co-created) but discovering work I'm passionate about (software engineering) has made a world of difference in my life.
- wturner 16y ago1. That the world isn't what people say it is. 2. Nobody who has ever lived has ever invented or created anything. Human beings are just collage artists that rearrange "stuff" (matter,energy,etc) .Those who do it in a manner that certain people find convincing or fascinating are labeled innovators, the less convincing ones are labeled plagiarists. So there's nothing wrong with stealing bits and pieces of others work as long as the end result is convincingly "original". Because that's all anyone else has ever done.
- kingsidharth 16y ago"Stop looking for advice, and learn on your own."