Ask HN: What do you regret in life?

Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by mabbo on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:43AM (#12836180)

I regret not taking any real risks. I joined the fortune-500 corporate software world, never tried a start-up, never made anything memorable, never broke new ground.

I regret letting myself get comfortable, to a place where the money is too good to leave.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by AznHisoka on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:45AM (#12836197)

99% of startups are neither memorable or breaking any new ground.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by laurentdc on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:00AM (#12836290)

> I regret letting myself get comfortable, to a place where the money is too good to leave.

Getting comfortable is not necessarily bad. Knowing you have a solid "fallback" option in case anything goes wrong can actually help creativity and reduce the risk of having to compromise, imho.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by kkoomi on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:40AM (#12836567)

It sounds like what he is saying is that it hasn't helped his creativity though, and he's been compromising his creativity up until now..

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by mabbo on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:01AM (#12837340)

This, yes. And other things.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by divbit on Monday October 31, 2016 @05:10PM (#12840958)

Sorry- my reply was a bit insensitive, probably just jealous of your situation :)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by divbit on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:19AM (#12836415)

>I regret letting myself get comfortable, to a place where the money is too good to leave.

That sounds terrible, so sorry for you ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by Chos89 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:16PM (#12850998)

Want to trade?

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