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In the late 80s', as a teenager, I received an offer from a doctor about improving a program that I had written. I turned down the offer. I wondered what would
by pierrebai 4y ago
In the late 80s', as a teenager, I received an offer from a doctor about improving a program that I had written. I turned down the offer. I wondered what would have happened if I picked it up instead.
In the early 90s', on a whim, for my first vacations as professional, I decided to go to NY. I stayed in a mostly derelict building in Harlem. There I met my future wife.
So many inflection points in our lives.
- aidenn0 4y agoI had the flu when I took my SATs which likely caused me to not become a national merit finalist, which led to me taking the school I liked better over my second choice (which gave a full scholarship to NM finalists), and it is literally impossible for me to imagine the trajectory of my life had I gone there.
- alar44 4y agoGood point, just imagine the wife you'd have if you would have improved that software!
- jacquesm 4y agoQuite. Picking up a hitch-hiker changed my life in more ways than I can even reason about. Also: there must be some very large number of these incredible projects that never really saw the light of day.
- iambateman 4y agoWould you be up for elaborating on what happened with the hitch-hiker? :D
- jacquesm 4y agosure: https://jacquesmattheij.com/a-western-kid-living-in-communist-poland/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/a-western-kid-living-in-communis...
- iambateman 4y agoFun read, thanks for linking to it!
- jacquesm 4y agoYou're welcome. It still blows my mind that if I had taken ring 'West' instead of ring 'East' that my whole life would have turned out entirely different.