[travisjungroth]

> And whats your best tip for life in general?

This will sound snarky given the context, but my best tip is to stop looking for personalized advice for common problems.

You haven’t given enough details to for anyone to seriously tailor their advice to you. So it’s just going to be generic. And if you’re willing to go with generic, you can do better than what fits into a comment on HN.

You could get the same advice much faster by googling the same question and looking at threads. You could find authors that seem respected and find out what they say about the matter.

If you’re going to go for personalized, share as much as you can. Fit as many details as you can while still keeping it organized. If your question is worth asking, ask it all the way.

And, this applies a ton in programming. You’ll be much faster if you learn to do as much as you can pulling from resources, and then pushing a great question when you need to.

[peterwoerner]

Another important thing to know, is that people's advice will be based on their personal life goals--which is likely different from your personal life goals. If you go ask wall street playboys advice, they are going to give you advice on how to make $X,000,000 (start a business on the side) and become a player. If you ask a preacher for advice they are going to tell you to do a mission trip abroad, find a wife and get involved in a church.