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Re:The 2.5 year side project app I designed, built, and neve... by Barrin92 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:04AM (#37911189)
At the end of the day regret for stuff like this only makes sense if you could have known at the time that it wouldn't pan out and you did it against your better judgement. If you made the best decision with the information you had that's all you can do, everything else is up to the gods.

This sort of outcome based thinking where you fret over past projects in hindsight with knowledge you didn't have when you had to make a choice just isn't worth bothering with. Most projects fail, most businesses do, that's just how it goes. I remember reading a blog from an ex finance guy where he pointed out that nobody was ever fired for accidentally making money from a bad trade. In our results based culture it's pretty easy to forget that we really only control the process.

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Re:The 2.5 year side project app I designed, built, and neve... by Exuma on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:10AM (#37916371)
I have no regreat, only a slight loss at the sense of self. All of that energy does not come for "free." You must pay the piper so to speak. You only have a few surges like that in your lifetime, so far I'm on like #7 or something and I feel I don't have it in me to do too many more, at least at that intensity. Kind of like a cat that gets 9 lives. In my 20s I was a bit foolish on what I chose to invest those 9 lives in. Luckily, as I've gotten older I'm much smarter and I have chosen wisely.
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