I've got an LG B470 flip phone. It's really quite a piece of crap but it does the minimum. I've got a family and a side business, so it's not really practical to go without (despite the temptation.)
My fondest hope is that enough people will step back from smartphones to create a market for slightly-more-capable flip phones. At a minimum, having a decent camera would be nice.
1. Working out regularly (3 times a week lifting weights), eating healthy, and playing team sports (co-ed soccer and volleyball). In my 30s, and still in the best shape I have ever been.
There was a time when I didn't work out regularly, and I have to say that a 'weak' body affects you in many way down the road. Trying to 'save time' by skipping working out, or not doing physical activities is counter productive. Similar to skipping sleep because you don't have time. It destroys your health in many ways.
2. Moving to the US as an exchange student (in high school), and living for a year with an american family that I had never met before.
Edit: Picking the wrong partner can be catastrophic financially and emotionally. Pick someone you can trust, rely on, and who compliments your strengths and weaknesses. Be prepared to go to great lengths for them when necessary.
It's difficult to answer because we don't know what we the roads not taken would have been.
For me, the best decision was to move to a foreign country. My life has been much more exciting in so many ways. One of my regrets is that I could have done it sooner.
Traveling slowly for almost two years. I tried staying at least a week in each place and at least a month in each country. Stayed in some places like Peru for longer (9 months total).
Lifting, learning to count calories, healthy habits in general.
Staying out of the sun.
Moving out of the rust belt.
In preparation for moving, moving back in with my parents and getting close with them after a period of about a half decade of taking my family for granted.
Can you elaborate? I am doing the opposite, because I am almost all the time in the office or gym. I force myself to get as much sun as possible for the Vitamin D and articles associated with it here on Hacker News[1].
* My parents leaving Romania for the US (on the Greencard lottery) when I was 10.
* Leaving a large company to work on a product I believed in (Airbnb 2012).
* Not paying too much attention to my peers and doing what felt right: not getting a service job as a teenager and freelance coding(even when my effective hourly rate ended up being lower than working at Subway), becoming a farmhand after working as an engineer; taking a job at an art hedge fund in NYC while living in rural Washington.
* Viewing money as a side product rather than a goal.
That’s a really interesting history. I took a very traditional route. How did you end up positioning yourself for jobs like the art hedge fund? In my experience that would have required some amount of real life social connections or hustling. Just curious... for my kid’s sake.
2). Sticking it out in CS undergrad when I was having a hard time with the material instead of dropping out
3). Leaving shitty jobs(though I could've left sooner at each instance) for greener pastures
4). Instead of resorting to drugs or alcohol to deal with bad times and loneliness in my life, turning to running instead and running the Marathon des Sables(and unrelatedly but subsequently finishing my pilot's license) which made me believe in myself
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 138 ms ] thread* Buying real estate... a lot of it
* Staying out of the stock market until after 2009... then leveraging and buying a lot of stocks
* Playing inverse volatility until 2017... missed out on the VIX termination event in Feb 2018
Some things that didn’t turn out well:
* Crappy career. Had to quit after many years of training to get there due to external pressures. Fortunately the above compensated many times over.
Life isn’t perfect, but I’m lucky to be relatively healthy and living in a safe part of the world.
It should also include this: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/nba-inside-drive-2000/... but crediting practices in the games industry sometimes leave a lot to be desired.
I've also done a number of social and mobile games but they are all dead now, and were not much worth digging up anyway.
My fondest hope is that enough people will step back from smartphones to create a market for slightly-more-capable flip phones. At a minimum, having a decent camera would be nice.
There was a time when I didn't work out regularly, and I have to say that a 'weak' body affects you in many way down the road. Trying to 'save time' by skipping working out, or not doing physical activities is counter productive. Similar to skipping sleep because you don't have time. It destroys your health in many ways.
2. Moving to the US as an exchange student (in high school), and living for a year with an american family that I had never met before.
3. Studying Computer Science
Edit: Picking the wrong partner can be catastrophic financially and emotionally. Pick someone you can trust, rely on, and who compliments your strengths and weaknesses. Be prepared to go to great lengths for them when necessary.
For me, the best decision was to move to a foreign country. My life has been much more exciting in so many ways. One of my regrets is that I could have done it sooner.
2. Not leaving her when things got hard.
3. Having children.
4. Learning how to program.
- Focus on my own goals
Career - Javascript! Javascript! Javascript! - Starting my own company
2. Picking up jogging - really helped me to fight anxiety and started thinking straight
Lifting, learning to count calories, healthy habits in general.
Staying out of the sun.
Moving out of the rust belt.
In preparation for moving, moving back in with my parents and getting close with them after a period of about a half decade of taking my family for granted.
Can you elaborate? I am doing the opposite, because I am almost all the time in the office or gym. I force myself to get as much sun as possible for the Vitamin D and articles associated with it here on Hacker News[1].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16556732
You can go outside without being in direct sunlight.
1. Traveling and living overseas for over half of my twenties. Gave me a world and multi-cultural perspective.
2. Getting emotional healing from an abusive childhood. Gave me confidence to pursue life from a place of healing and peace.
3. Getting married to my wife who I share everything with, including being work partners.
4. Having children which has opened up a whole new aspect of wonder, curiosity and adventure.
2). Sticking it out in CS undergrad when I was having a hard time with the material instead of dropping out
3). Leaving shitty jobs(though I could've left sooner at each instance) for greener pastures
4). Instead of resorting to drugs or alcohol to deal with bad times and loneliness in my life, turning to running instead and running the Marathon des Sables(and unrelatedly but subsequently finishing my pilot's license) which made me believe in myself