What You'll Wish You'd Known

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."

Comments

Re:What really matters

[rastagromit]

That's it? out off all the wonderful, amazing, things in this world? The fun and the heart-wrenching? All you can do is worry about what happens to wyou when you die?

That's morbid.

And no, you're not going to Heaven. nobody is. When those neurons stop firing, it's over- quit hiding from it. How about you enjoy the brief few years between now and then? Instead of just accepting some Semitic goat-herder's doublethink (he's god! he's man! he's both!), and boring the rest of us with that particularly inane drivel that is quoting the bible.

Re:Math teachers..

[leshert]

In other words, they're just like software engineers.

I wish I had known....

[ixl]

that Paul Graham is a tedious windbag