# Advice for Your Past Self **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 21, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-your-past-self/966583 "2022-06-21T21:05:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-your-past-self/966583/21 "2022-06-23T13:37:12Z")
Publish everything I come up with. The fact that it took me 20 minutes to come up with doesn’t mean that others won’t be impressed. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-your-past-self/966583/22 "2022-06-24T17:55:01Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@kayaker](#): > > > > I’m not gonna lie. I’d give specific bets to play on specific dates. > > Or sure-fire investment advice. Microsoft. Apple (don’t worry about the rough patch in the 90s; they get through it just fine). You guys will probably Butterfly Effect everything by messing up our timeline. **kayaker** will lose all his bets and end up penniless living on Skid Row. **solost** will be personally be responsible for the end of computers as we know them and probably those internet tube things too. We’ll be back to writing letters and going to the library to look things up again. 🙁 Greedy bastards! For me it would be to get rid of the farm when I first wanted to. It was an anchor around everyone in the family for years. Nobody wanted it, but nobody wanted to get rid of it for sentimental reasons. Freaking money pit. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-your-past-self/966583/23 "2022-06-24T18:36:35Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > **solost** will be personally be responsible for the end of computers as we know them and probably those internet tube things too. Eh, I think it would be pretty much the same, except instead of googling stuff, you’d be ‘solosting’ it. Admittedly though, ‘solost’ would be a terrible name both for a search engine and a verb form to use it. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-your-past-self/966583/24 "2022-06-24T18:58:07Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Admittedly though, ‘solost’ would be a terrible name both for a search engine and a verb form to use it. As long as I can still get porn, I can live with solosting. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-your-past-self/966583/25 "2022-06-24T23:28:38Z")
Get a second opinion from a different dentist. Marry the guy who doesnt take drugs. Its okat to cut your hair shorter, people will still know youre a hippie. Stop getting crushes on guys, let them pursue you. ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-your-past-self/966583/26 "2022-06-24T23:43:24Z")
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