Visceral Advice
I’m now sure that most advice is wasted.
I’ve ran into several problems recently, after which I thought Gosh, so-and-so’s advice was right! The problem is that I never remember so-and-so’s advice when I’m actually in the situation. There’s a bug somewhere between hearing the advice and recalling it in the situation.
I’ve been trying to fix this bug. I’m going to try to imagine two things whenever I hear advice: the experience that generated it, and myself in a situation that calls for the advice.
I think this exercise will help me generate better questions for the advice giver, too.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Hey Adam, Enjoyed reading about your entrepreneur adventures. Heard you are in SF from someone at HealthTech who met you recently. Interesting lessons learned. QC PathFinder is rocking this year– won the Veterans Admin bid for a pilot in Palo Alto (against all of our competitors), and just completed a partnership for marketing to commercial health care. Best for us to stick to product dev and innovation… leave marketing to others! Good luck– I know you’ll do great!