I'm turning 26 this year, what advice on life do you have for me?

Answer: Whether you're 16, 26 or 66 my advice is; beware the collector! In th.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You I'm turning 26 this year, what advice on life do you have for me? Arthur Luke, Lifelong Entrepreneur | Author Written Dec 17 Whether you're 16, 26 or 66 my advice is; beware the collector! In the search for that ultimate 'pearl of wisdom,' we can end up 'collecting' instead of doing. We collect inf... Read More » Why does Kafka scale better than other messaging systems like RabbitMQ? Adam Warski, Scala Software Engineer / CTO (2009-present) Updated Jul 16, 2017 There's a couple of functional differences that make it possible for Apache Kafka to scale better than RabbitMQ: message ordering: RabbitMQ queues are FIFO. In Kafka, you on... Read More » An insect has been trapped in my side table for almost two years. It makes "grinding" noises occasionally, but how is it surviving without water? Rich Pollack, Entomologist Written Jul 4 An insect has been trapped in my side table for almost two years. It makes "grinding" noises occasionally, but how is it surviving without water? There's a good chance that ... Read More » Our CTO wants to change the backend language from Go to Scala, but no colleagues know Scala, how should I convince him to stay with Go? Jim Brashear, CTO at HPN Worldwide Inc. (2016-present) Updated Jan 8 As a CTO whose primary product is written in Scala/Akka - please let me beg you to convince him to stay with Go. Scala's a nightmare for recruiting - nobody knows it, and t... Read More » Should I give up on OkCupid? Melinda Gwin, Has started more than one relationship on OKCupid. Written Jul 28 I like OKCupid. It's worked well for me. That said, I'm a reasonably attractive female. On the other hand, I'm open about being batshit crazy and have a ten-year-old, so mayb... Read More » Do senior NCOs with decades of experience really salute fresh second lieutenants on their first day of duty? James Shannon, Senior Chief U.S. Navy Written Tue Yes absolutely! I am an E-8 with over 23 years of service and I will salute every officer in every applicable and appropriate situation. I will salute the 0–6 or 0–1 regard... Read More » Is Berlin over? Timo Laak, lived in Berlin (2016-2018) Written Dec 24, 2017 The glory days of the capital of leftie anarchists, cheap rents, squats and techno club life are definitely over. Berlin is rapidly gentrifying. Thousands of people are movi... Read More » How does one succeed at life? Elena Ledoux, Founder at MommyGO (2017-present) Written Dec 21 I consider myself very successful - I have a happy and loving family and many amazing friendships that I'm proud of. I had a successful professional career as a lawyer afte... Read More » How do I gain biceps? Joe Nagy, Science/research based bodybuilder Updated Jul 18 These are my arms. I don't do more than 5–10 sets of curls total in a given week. Know why my arms are big? Because I do heavy compound back work. ... Read More » My company hired a new senior software engineer and he is refactoring everything I worked on for past 6 months alone. My CTO has given him full reign to do so. All of this makes me feel incompetent and unappreciated. Am I overthinking? Jim Thomason, Software Developer at Basset Software (2004-present) Written Dec 21 Obligatory Dilbert: Dilbert Comic Strip on 2014-08-12 Everybody does this. Every single time a new high end developer comes into a shop they think that the existing code is a... Read More » Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.http://www.quora.com/