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Discussion on: What's the worst career decision you've ever made?

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Ben Halpern

It's hard to say it was a bad career decision since I learned a lot, but I had a side project that I brought some partners onto and man did we not see eye-to-eye on operations or work well together. I was extremely frustrated and wound up wasting a lot of time. I learned a lot about working relationships, so I don't necessarily regret it, but it had a big impact for me in terms of what not to do.

I've made a lot of bad decisions I can look back on and sigh about, but I learned a lot from each one and I can't imagine it being all that different. That's kind of corny, but it's true.

Not a decision per se, but I regret being worried about not being up-to-date about certain libs that wound up being displaced by the next wave. I spent way too much time with FOMO that I didn't know it all. Lots of imposter syndrome at play.