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Anil Dash 🥭
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One of the weirdest things about being a CEO is I end up seeing a lot of media and advice aimed toward entrepreneurs, or offering tips on how to succeed in business, and my overwhelming response to it all is NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING! Honestly. Almost all the advice is overstated.
Like, I started my first company... ~25 years ago? And all I've done since then is learn more and try to do better, and *very* little of the things people write apply outside of their specific domain or experience. We can learn from them, but every situation is hugely different.
Probably most important: Does anyone else's success look like what you would define as success? I look at the family life, or environmental impact, or political effects of the careers that some have, and I would consider my life a failure if I pursued the path that they did.
In conclusion: reject any advice that's not relevant to your context, consider the source for any recommendations that you read, evaluate people's thoughts and ideas through the lens of their actual impact on the world, engage with systems on your own terms.
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