What You'll Wish You'd Known 798
sheck writes "Eminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire, Paul Graham has written down the things he wishes somebody had told him when he was in high school in What You'll Wish You'd Known, suggesting, among other things, that students treat school like a day job, working on interesting projects to avoid what he has found to be the most common regret among adults of their high school days: wasting time."
Okay... (Score:5, Funny)
I think that when the *very first word* in your story is misspelled, you should probably hand in your "Lil' Editors' Fun Club" membership card.
Well (Score:4, Funny)
I Wish... (Score:2, Funny)
reading between the lines (Score:2, Funny)
Emminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire, Paul Graham has written down the things he wishes somebody had told him when he was in high school in What You'll Wish You'd Known, suggesting, among other things, that students treat school like a day job, working on interesting projects to avoid what he has found to be the most common regret among adults of their high school days: reading Slashdot."
What I'd Wish I'd Known (Score:4, Funny)
one word.... (Score:3, Funny)
How about Brevity?
(4324 words for chrissakes, and that excludes his footnotes!)
Re:Learn it all for yourself. It's part of growing (Score:5, Funny)
Very good point, and I totally agree, seriously. As the great Judge Smails has stated, "the world needs ditch diggers to".
When I was young... (Score:5, Funny)
Ford: Why, what did she tell you?
Arthur: I don't know, I didn't listen.
Advice from an Old AC to young whippersnappers (Score:2, Funny)
He forgot a few (Score:3, Funny)
2. Don't drop the soap in the shower after Gym.
3. If you don't get lucky by senior year: become a computer programmer.
4. Sex with the lunch lady doesn't count for #3.
Re:Okay... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"youth is wasted on the young" (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I invested in tech stocks a the right time, I just didn't divest at the right time...
There is always room for beer. (Score:2, Funny)
He places what is most important in life (represented by large rocks) into the jar, family, health, etc.
He then places what is of lesser importance, job, prestige, etc. with smaller rocks.
He then even places things of no importance into the jar represented as sand.
He then whips out a can of beer and pours it into the seeminly "filled" jar.
Then then states that "There is always room for beer!"
Re:Learn it all for yourself. It's part of growing (Score:4, Funny)
Wow. I formally request that somebody smart follow that first link [timecube.com] and report back here, 'cause I'm just too dumb (apparently) to understand what that guy is trying to say. I don't even know the answer to the rhetorical questions, such as:
The second link [sollog.com] is easier, as the great prophet (and ebay entrepreneur) Sollog only offers wisdom upon payment of a nominal fee.
The internet has sure made life easier. I used to have to go looking for mimeographed sheets* stapled to telephone poles to find this kind of stuff.
* Usually 8.5x14, printed on both sides, 8- or 10-point type, with ADDITIONAL material scrawled into the margins. I once found a TWO sheet screed in San Angelo, TX on how various corporate logos SECRET CONTAIN THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, but that was a rare find.
Form a Union (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Learn it all for yourself. It's part of growing (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What I'd Wish I'd Known (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"youth is wasted on the young" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:More 'You Must Love Your Work' Brainwashing (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, but the porn industry is harder to break into than you think.
The lesson I wish I'd learned... (Score:2, Funny)