If you could go back in time and change one decision

[The Comrade]

[eynon81]

just one? different major in college. graduate with 3.9 GPA.

[Spider]

Its tough, because everything sort of lined up in a pleasant way totally in spite of all my long term efforts to f**k it up. I feel like if I were to even go back and decide not to shave off a beard in May of 2001, I'd have wound up being a truck driver in Mobile, Alabama or somewhere equally awful, and have like 6 gap toothed kids and a fatass wife shaking a tub of crisco at my head as both an expression of threat and lasciviousness...

[uebermann]

[JockandBallTorture]

i would have never left Shell Oil.

[micfranklin]

I would've loved to have opened my PayPal account when I just started college and just start saving bits of money in there over time.

[broken robot]

I feel like the mistakes I've made so far have been a necessary part of the learning process. Even if I could change one momentary decision, my attitude would've still been the same and led down a similar path. For example, there's a girl I liked in college but I was awkward about it and didn't ask her out. I think even if I had done so however the relationship wouldn't have been so great because I was still dealing with my own insecurities. Other stuff I found out along the way through meeting people at the right moment, like finally realizing how messed up my family was, but again I don't think knowing that earlier on would've made a difference until I was in a more receptive state.

if i can think of one thing though...hmm...perhaps pick a major outside my comfort zone in college, like computer science, and read what i was actually interested in on the side as a kind of hobby, since i was motivated to do it either way. then again my grades would've probably sucked. either that or spend more time learning languages. some kind of difficult specialized knowledge that's much easier to acquire when all i had to do was take classes, rather than when i'm now working or doing research.

[NAB]

If I could go back in time I might stop myself from posting to the Usenet for the first time many years ago. It began a steady decline to post on this internet thing and seriously reduced productivity for many years. I've put that behind me somewhat, but who knows what I could have accomplished with all that extra time. I have to assume I'd have a Pritzker Prize by now if it weren't for Internet forums.

[eynon81]

[Stratego]

I wouldn't have ripped up that engineering plan on how to build a time machine.