• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I had a friend who told me to buy Bitcoin when it cost cents. I didn’t, because at the time it required you to send your ID to an unknown entity.

    The same friend had previously recommended that I learn Hadoop. I didn’t because I didn’t have the proper setup to host it and when was it going to be relevant to my job? Incidentally my current job relies - and my previous job relied - heavily on HDFS.

    I’m extremely sleep deprived and can’t remember the third thing, but there was a third thing that would have been extremely lucrative if I had followed his advice.

    Once I recognized the trend I asked him for the next suggestion. He said I should start my own business. I didn’t because I don’t have any ideas.

    Maybe I should start a business.

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        2 months ago

        Given the nature of his proclivities, I wouldn’t be surprised if he showed up here unprompted and dropped the next nugget of financial wisdom.

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        That sounds like a good business plan, but I’m not sure I could convince Ryan Reynolds (or Guy) to work with me.