Nine things I learned in ninety years(edwardpackard.com)
826 points by coderintherye | 316 comments
A PDF essay by Edward Packard, creator of Choose Your Own Adventure books, sharing nine lessons from his ninety years of life.
#life-lessons on Hacker News
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Life lessons from the first half-century of my career(cacm.acm.org)
358 points by zdw | 137 comments
Communications of the ACM opinion piece by David A. Patterson sharing 16 life lessons and nine magic words from 50 years of his computing career.
Life lessons from the death bed(isonomiaquarterly.com)
382 points by brandonlc | 160 comments
An essay by Katie Zakrzewski in Isonomia Quarterly on life lessons drawn from people at the end of their lives.