I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned

Re:I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned by RealityVoid on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @08:42AM (#17125476)

I honestly believe that no matter what you do, if you think about it, you're going to regret it.

No startup? "Maan, I wished I would have done more with my youth!" Startuping? "Maan, I wished I would have done more with my youth!"

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Re:I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned by mkirklions on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:37AM (#17125797)

My problem is going to be 'not traveling' when I was young.

Traveling sucks. Expensive. Time consuming. I feel unhealthy. I get to see a bunch of physical monuments and experience cultures that I dont understand.

I enjoy traveling when I'm already there, its been 2 days where I'm not jet lagged and the non-american sizes of protein havent taken a physical toll on me.

So I'll prob regret it the next time ISIS destroys some roman building, but I have a life I consider a 9/10 or 10/10

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Re:I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned by RealityVoid on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:52AM (#17125907)

I'll have a confession here that will make me sound like an asshole. I used to love to travel, alone. I went, made summary plans or even spontaneous ones, savored the place, got lost, walked a lot, got into weird situations, interacted with the locals.

Then I got a girlfriend. I love her, but now I don't like traveling anymore. Now traveling means, plans, finding the _optimal_ place to stay, everything has to be settled beforehand, the housing has to have some standard of decency, now we have _objectives_ and no time for spontaneous whims.

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Re:I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned by pdimitar on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:27PM (#17137927)

I can definitely hear my wife saying while smiling at you: "Then you don't have the right girlfriend".

Let that not sound like me being an asshole. But your true love would follow you everywhere and overcome the hardships of spontaneous travel with you.

However, people truly loving each other while having drastically different interests is also an undeniable fact of life. Maybe you should just periodically travel alone, without her?

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Re:I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned by thecrazyone on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:22PM (#17137264)

Maybe that's just a different kind of life, I guess?

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Re:I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned by bootsz on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:06AM (#17125595)

Exactly. This is related to The Deathbed Fallacy, discussed recently in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17112241

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