I'd learn a trade in all seriousness.

(Edit: And learn how honest business works)

nxobject 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

With the hindsight of experience, the remnants of my 18-year old energy go “woah, that’s cool!” at plenty of engineering feats… and my decades-older second brain goes “well d’oh, I could’ve just learned a trade to work on that!”

I think the last one was seeing a skilled electronics repairman do surgery on a CT machine controller.

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sph 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Depends if you’re 17 with rich parents or not.

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repeekad 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This only changes whether you are naive enough to believe “honest” business means anything in today’s age. If anything, I worry being honest is holding back smart people who try to compete in a rigged game.

	▲	embedding-shape 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> you are naive enough to believe “honest” business means anything in today’s age Might be that these people are from outside the US as well, where things like "honest business" is very much possible today, probably most businesses I interact with AFK on a daily business are "honest businesses".