"If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone." – Naval Ravikant
Ask enough people for advice, it’ll put you right back where you started.
This is not to say advice is not valuable, only that where it comes from is more valuable than the quantity of it we receive.
An abundance of connectivity means you’re only ever a second away from another opinion.
It’s very difficult to build independent conviction if you form a focus group to review your every decision.
If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.
The constraint we apply to package our idea determines their reach & resonance. "Make 1 decision to eliminate 1,000 decisions."
To help understand this idea, consider the contrast between the two concepts ancient Greeks used to think about time.
It should be relatively simple to identify when we aren't accumulating net new experience, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be.
Language is an incredible tool. It makes it possible for us to externalize what we think and communicate it to others.
