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Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by techtivist on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:11AM (#8436597)
I was really touched that PG's greatest regret was something related to his family, and not YC or his larger professional career. As young founders we tend to forget (or are expected to anyways) where our real long term priorities should be, and I hope PG's own regret reminds us to think about it from time to time.
Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by markokrajnc on Friday October 10, 2014 @04:23AM (#8436751)
This "from time to time" should be daily. A very big part of happiness comes from relationships. Often you don't realize this and even make jokes like this one:

Q: "Do you have time for private life in Silicon Valley?" A: "What's this?" and then LOL because you know you are doing too little for your personal life...

If you would give only 15% more of your focused time to your spouse, kids, father, mother, friends... they would value it a lot! And it would be your long-term success! Are you ready to make such a small sacrifice for your "private life start-up"?

Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:19PM (#8438559)
I wish I had really understood this 20 years ago. And I wasn't even in a startup. I just had things I wanted to work on that took time. Good things, useful things, but I put time/energy/thought into them that should have been spent on my kids.
Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by EGreg on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:34PM (#8439019)
Those things are like your baby but when you have a real baby then thats your BABY!

I think all people want to transcend their own death and for men, it's through creating useful things and for women the instinct is more for raising good children.

Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by personjerry on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:44PM (#8439387)
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but you may want to be careful with the generalizations.
Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by EGreg on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:48PM (#8439410)
I usually throw them out there because if someone disagrees I may learn something. I imagine I gain more than I lose from that.
Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by serf on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:53AM (#8437114)
I had a difficult time watching this video from a technical aspect, so to save others the trouble :

PGs biggest regret has to do with not with business or entrepreneurship, but that he wishes that he had told his parent(s) to have more frequent colon cancer screenings.

Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had.

Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by yeukhon on Saturday October 11, 2014 @12:21AM (#8441242)
> Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had.

This is also my regret. As much as I want to say doing more internship and building more personal projects and contributing to more open source projects are useful today, dedicate more time on studying the material instead of saying "no one will care if you know how to write quicksort" or "I will learn them in my job anyway" is absolutely a requirement.

I also regret not able to do more internships...

Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by jtcchan on Friday October 10, 2014 @04:41AM (#8436788)
yeah, it was even tough to watch him answer that. :(
Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by jgrahamc on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:50AM (#8436681)
Would you mind saying what it was or pointing to the m:s where I can watch because I can't sit through 10 minutes of that video.
Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by falava on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:56AM (#8436696)
Question: 11:16

PG answer: 11:53

Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by techtivist on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:56AM (#8436690)
The question is asked at around 10 minutes, and PG answer around 12 after Jessica's answer.