Diego Camba

Diego Camba #11 - Spanish Business Requirements

Advice is often one of the worst vices...

Giving advice allows you to cheaply feel that you've helped, and importantly that you no longer have an obligation to the person who has the problem.

Advice is therefore usually for the benefit of the giver, not the receiver.

This then creates an incentive to give advice that ignores certain material realities which would otherwise invalidate the advice.

For example, telling young people locked out of the standard career ladder to start a business, while ignoring the practical realities involved...