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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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    An observation about being in mid thirties with kids: previously, I would benchmark “I think I want to spend ~5 years on X” against a 45 year career, but these days, it’s against “How many years do I have with the kids at home?”, which is a comparative eyeblink.

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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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        I have rather few regrets in life, but if I got a do-over, there were a couple of big decisions that I would have pulled the bandaid off a few years earlier. (Quitting the salaryman thing and saving half of my twenties most prominently among them.)

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      1. Isak Bosman‏ @isakbos Jan 25
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        @patio11 its crazy! This makes me think of the post by Paul Graham on how short life is: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html .

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      1. Bashayer Alzaidi‏ @bashayeralzaidi Jan 27
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        Time with kids: If you miss out, you miss out for good. A career however, can always be rebooted.

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        And it falls off like a cliff once they start driving

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      1. oversubscribed‏ @primaryshares Jan 25
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        So true

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      1. Paige Hewlett‏ @paigehewlett Jan 27
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        My friend just said to me: you have from 4-12 to make it happen with your kids. (Im sure there’s still opportunity after 12...) but really reaffirms how I spend my days now. More after school pick ups, less after work happy hour or late nights at the office.

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      2. Lefteris Karapetsas‏ @LefterisJP Jan 25
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        Another note: if the answer to requests for more flexibility due to wanting to spend time with the kids is "People have been working and having kids forever without flexibility", then run. Run fast.

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      3. Jean-Philippe Lebœuf‏ @jpleboeuf Jan 26
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        Variant: "Children don't require that much time."

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      1. Dan Moore‏ @mooreds Jan 26
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        100%. You never get these years back. Chatting with people with kids 5-15 years older than mine opened my eyes. Now excuse me while I close Twitter and hang with my kids.

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        Spend time with kids, its over in the blink of an eye..

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