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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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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Replying to @patio11
How about quitting the self-employed thing and going back to drawing a salary? In hindsight was the timing right on that?
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*shrug* That’s not the most salient difference for me in Stripe versus previous adventures.
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Working with many more people than previous adventures and with structure, though structure is just people with supporting documentation.
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