Here's my question: why should you care what your future self thinks? Should avoiding future regret really be your primary goal now?
This whole article seems a bit self-centered, in that it suggests you should first and foremost care about how things will affect you in the future, rather than caring about others.
It seems to me like you should spend less time trying to prevent future regret, and more time trying to do right by other people.
If it was only a regret on the deathbed, I'd agree. But if these regrets are held for many decades, and thus the pain from them may well outweigh a sacrifice in the presence - if the regretfullness is high enough.
This whole article seems a bit self-centered, in that it suggests you should first and foremost care about how things will affect you in the future, rather than caring about others.
It seems to me like you should spend less time trying to prevent future regret, and more time trying to do right by other people.