I would have avoided the hype train and intellectual amazement for computers. Treating startup ideas as an over-achieving school project, wasted a lot of time.

I would have avoided the hype train and intellectual amazement for computers. Treating startup ideas as an over-achieving school project, wasted a lot of time. Getting a clear handle on what kinds of problems I can make computers solve and what is unrealistic theory, would have saved a lot of time and angst. Because my ideas for programs, are orthogonal to the direction of the computing industry. Therefore it would have been better if I went into finance.