>>Success or failure at anything is all about making the right tradeoffs. Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes.
Very well said indeed!
"Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes."
is the best thing I remember reading on YC. I've read books that were less profound then that sentence. I always thought that, but as a newbie inventor/entrepreneur, it's good to have put so succinctly and up front.
"X is bad. You must do Y to succeed."
Absolute statements like this are almost always dangerous to make, and I don't trust the articles that make them. Success or failure at anything is all about making the right tradeoffs. Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes.
But dictating absolutes is so much easier, and I guess that's why everyone does it.