Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?

I started listening the five hours (!) interview of John Carmack on Lex fridman’s podcast, and he was talking about, among other things, about the fact that he’s coding since he was a kid and spent hours upon hours in front of a screen and keyboard writing code. I find Carmack’s, Romero’s and the Id software folks work very fascinating […]