Why articles like “things I wish I could tell my younger self” don’t work

The one thing they all missed

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If you Google “things I wish my younger self knew” or “open letter to my younger self”, you will not get a shortage of answers/links.

Even on Medium, I have seen more than a few stories along this topic.

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Lily Chen

Senior software engineer at Datadog. I write about tech and life. Portfolio: https://lilychencodes.com/