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Against Advice - by Max Nussenbaum - Candy for Breakfast

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Why all advice is useless.

Against Advice Jul 25, 2021 2 Share Against all odds, I often find myself in the position of being asked to give advice. I always play along, even though I’m pretty sure I’m just participating in a charade. What advice do you have for a young person at the start of their career? For a future entrepreneur? For a budding writer? The questions are all interchangeable, the answers even more so. The truth is, all advice is useless. I’m talking here about the sort of generic, distributed-at-scale advice you might find in an essay or at a public Q&A. I don’t think it’s useless when someone who knows

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