I'd advise my 20-year-old self to exercise more, eat better, and focus on building deep relationships rather than just networking.
Exercise more. Eat better. You know? Things. You know? I think 20 year old I mean, that's a that's a pretty long time ago for me. You know, I I definitely would say, hey. Keep keep hacking around on these computers, you know, as a as a comp sci major and, you know, that's probably that's probably a good thing to be focused on. I probably would have talked more, you know, get given the advice about relationships and and how much they're gonna matter. Not the quantity of them, but the depth of a few of them. Right? I have several relationships that were or, you know, mentoring relationships that have become more two way, over time that that have been life changing either personally, professionally, or both. And, you know, I just think I I probably really undervalued that for the first ten or fifteen years and probably could have built an even more extensive powerful, network that way. But but I think people hear the word network and networking and say, oh, I just gotta go to cocktail parties and meet people. It's, again, taking that give first attitude and and somebody does something for you. What what can you do to help their world? I mean, not them. Maybe something they're involved with. I would put more focus on those relationships with other human beings, I think. I you know, I'm an introvert. I I, you know, I I don't I don't love going to conferences. I don't love going to big dinners and stuff like that. You can't change who you are, but really going deep with with people that you wanna invest in and and do things with, I think, is really, really powerful in a long career.
I would advise my 20-year-old self to focus on the importance of mentors.
Not all about that. Mhmm. Mhmm. Mhmm. Mhmm. Just to, I mean, double tap on this idea of mentors.