This is hard because you want to be sure it's squarely something that's a net-negative.

I think I'd try to find the biggest lie I told and not tell it. When I was younger I had a certain kind of desperation that made me feel like I had to lie about things that I didn't. I was constantly in trouble and I thought the problem was that I had the wrong story. The lies I told were afaict harmless to the recipient, like lying about why I didn't want to work full time. Even so, I ache with regret about it.

I tend to think about the chain of events around and following a lie as lost time, time that I lost getting to be "me" in the world, and as cliched as it is, time really is the most precious thing. I tend to think the worst thing a person can do to themselves is lie to other people, mislead them, or manipulate them. We are betraying the other people, but also ourselves (our truth isn't good enough) and the world (the facts aren't good enough) we are living in.

I wouldn't have responded to my estranged fathers messages on Facebook. I was always, and will continue to be better off without him.

I would have also left certain jobs sooner.

Another thing I would change is that I would be less dismissive of money.

Buying my current house just over 10 years ago. The last 10 years have been a nightmare and we’ve outgrown the house as a family with no possibility at the moment of getting a different place.

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I stopped smoking at the end of 2020. But now I vape which is less dangerous than cigarettes.

This question would be more appropriate before you die !

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I mean for sure I could go back and I would have told past me to just spend a grand on btc back in 2016 and would have kept stacking and now I would never have to worry about inflation again, I'd be out of the matrix.

But, if we're not talking sats, one thing I would change was shutting down an email list I had.

I used to have a site where I published how-to articles related to selling on amazon, I had thousands of subscribers and I'd usually do a weekly email.

Then I decided to pivot into being a nutritionist and I shutdown the old website and email list to 'burn the boats'.

Well, in this age of attention economy, that was the wrong thing to do. My pivot failed spectacularly I should have kept that list that I worked hard to build and then when I came back to amazon work, I would have been able to pick back up and offer my services again.

I would have been more responsible, and would have been smarter with my money, and health…