Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
<i>I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets</i><p>Don't forget to consider that you may regret whatever you do - by human nature, the grass is proverbially always greener on the other side. People who have kids may wish they hadn't, but if they hadn't, they may have regretted <i>that</i> - in both cases thinking they'd made the wrong choice. Socrates and Kierkegaard, among others, discussed this as a basic feature of life - how regret seems 'objective', but it's far from it.<p>"Marry or do not marry, you will regret it either way. ...Laugh at the stupidities of the world or weep over them, you will regret it either way. ...Trust a girl or do not trust her, you will regret it either way. ...Hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret it either way. ...This, gentlemen, is the quintessence of all the wisdom of life." - Kierkegaard, <i>Either/Or</i><p>(The Preface of <i>Either/Or</i> even says about the book's chapters "Read them or do not read them, you will regret it either way."!)