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by onecommentman
1642 days ago
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Better title: Most (tactical business/career) advice is (rarely helpful in the general case, often unwise as long-term life strategies and full of survivorship bias). Yep. Such books are written to get the author into the business equivalent of Oprah’s Book Club. They have the half-life of your average K-pop group. The beef jerky and Mountain Dew at the feast of life insights. If you are starving and nothing else is available… The In-and-Out burger wrappers in the library of worldly wisdom. They can, at least, be useful bookmarks… |
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The important point I got out of the article, wasn't that most advice is bad, which seems clearly true, but a theory as to why:
1) Not novel - it just repeats what everyone already know, but maybe with a new anecdote! 2) Not actionable - the advice to vague to be practicable, good advice needs to be more specific which probably mean not applicable to everyone, which means not oprah scale. 3) Not based on evidence - why does this advice work, as opposed to being survivorship bias or junk extrapolation of real research.