What drives me crazy is that people take pots like this or Seth Godin or anyone writing like this and applying the criticism suitable to a paper on epistemology

What drives me crazy is that people take pots like this or Seth Godin or anyone writing like this and applying the criticism suitable to a paper on epistemology. If people had to actually write in all the 'qualifiers for smartasses' to avoid it, they would make pretty awful reading. The frustrating thing is, this reads like it's already been through some of that. He's very obviously not claiming some iron causality between debt and profitability. Just a relationship, in his case, possibly, consult your doctor before attempting. It's not the purpose of the article and it would be a tangent to go off and explain this relationship. Again, if you were making a subtle epistemological argument about the relationship between knowledge and certainty, go chase down everything. This is a blog post about the joys of running a profitable business. No one is going to build a business from a literalistic interpretation of a blog post.