[themodelplumber]

1. He wouldn't have listened.

2. No...”buy bitcoin” please. <-- he would have said that too, when asking for advice, but he could have made a lot of money had he bought bitcoin. I'm not sure why you wrote it, but he would have written it because 1) he thought of himself as deadly serious, and didn't want to take things like bitcoin seriously and 2) he would undermine those attempting to give advice by using tools like: Attempting to predict what those people would say. He saw this as cutting through the bulls** but another answer was that he was subverting good answers for emotional reasons. An interesting emotional reason likely being that asking others for help felt at some level as if it meant that one's own approaches or ideas weren't good enough.

3. He should listen, try completely new things, evaluate them, and aim to make lots of fresh mistakes.

4. But his biggest mistake was that he was not listening. He was waiting for his own heroism, his own tools to become his proven answer to problems that could have more easily been solved using other tools. He was in his own way.

5. In the meantime he should take better care of himself, or expect surprising moments of self-centeredness to break out when least desired. He shouldn't wait for others to defer to his own ideas or opinions so much.

Hurts to write all this, but I appreciate the exercise.