HACKER Q&A
📣 karakoram

What's Something You Wished You Started Doing Earlier?


Could be in you career, business or general life.

Something you recently picked up that would have had even greater impact if only you started a few years ago.

  👤 zahlman Accepted Answer ✓
My current projects, and everything else I've thought about doing next.
👤 zippyman55
Public speaking (toastmasters). I waited five yrs. Social skills, management skills, and learning to tell. It’s being ready for the “hey, do you have time to speak with the vice president of the company”

Also better quality cooking. Healthy, save money.

More physical fitness.

👤 al_borland
Taking care of my health.
👤 adminootadmin
Leave school.
👤 justinhj
Public speaking.
👤 toomuchtodo
Lifting
👤 tetris11
Microcontrollers. I never quite got what electrical engineering was all about.

Then I picked up my first esp32, and - boom - sucked into the maker space, staying up all night reading up on the intracies of using i2c over UART

👤 stephanschulz
Building things for myself, not just clients and thinking about who it's for from the start.

20+ years as a freelancer. I got good at solving other people's problems. Along the way I started 4 or 5 side projects with others. We'd build something solid, then wonder why nobody showed up. The pattern was always the same: build first, figure out marketing later.

Wish I'd understood earlier that reaching people isn't a phase after the product, it shapes the product.