[mikewarot]

So I find myself in 1990... I'd call up my high school crush, and we'd end up married 10 years sooner. Do a lot more programming and electronics, pushing as far as my skills can get me. Do a lot more photography, starting with film, and then get a scanner and go digital once the technology is able to keep up.

I'd make sure my grandpa ended up in jail, instead of getting away with what he did.

I'd do a lot more exercise, and take far better care of myself. I'd push as much money into savings and investments as I could.

If the market works the same way, I'd have a boatload of stock and Bitcoin by now, and I would know who Satoshi really is/was.

If the market doesn't work the same way, no big deal. I know a lot more about how business really works, and how to manage people, so I'll do ok with my career.

I'd try to push things on the internet towards a better outcome. It's before eternal September, so there is hope. I'd try to get emails signed by the sending server. I'd push capability based security, open source software, and make non-ad funded social networks a thing.

[kungito]

How does the business really work and is there some book about it which isn't just popular fiction?

[mikewarot]

I now understand the motivations of people way better than I did as a kid. There are a lot of things that are common knowledge after you've worked a few decades that aren't rocket science, but also aren't obvious.

It's like parenting... you have no idea until you've done it. There is a whole hidden parallel universe that you just don't see until you have a child to raise.