Things I Should Have Known at 20
The list is all phrased as commands.  I can't stand that.  There is no one way through life, and I wish people didn't act like just because it worked for them it will work for everyone.<p>Find people that are cooler than you and try to be even cooler than them seems like a particularly terrible command to give in general.  So many of the people I admire the most just don't care so much about image.  And I've met too many people who've exposed their own shallow foolishness trying too hard to be cool.<p>If it worked for the author, fine. And I'm sure there exist people for whom that is actually all right advice.  But life is full of edge cases and exceptions, and no one should act like their life should be the prototype for everyone else's.