Everytime someone offeres top X things to as a startup, I immediately go on the guard. 9/10 times, this advice is useless; 5/10 times it is harmful. My mantra i

Everytime someone offeres top X things to as a startup, I immediately go on the guard. 9/10 times, this advice is useless; 5/10 times it is harmful. My mantra is do not follow any advice and prime your brain with it. It turns out, no one really knows what's going on. They're trying things out and see what sticks. From Harvard MBA folks to your mom and pop shop that sells craft supplies. Please, I plead people on HN to stop listening to advice from people like Sam Altman, they're akin to "How to become a millionaire" books that you find at the side of the grocery store aisle. It is tabloid material that fills your brain with false knowledge. Next time a problem comes up, instead of thinking it through you immediately line up the dots and remember reading some solution to it. On the other hand, read engineering, science and mathematics books. Master statistics and probability. These are universal constants that will always help you. Learn accounting. I see the irony of me providing advice in this rebutal, but there is a distinction - learn universally true things that have data, backed by math and science. Those will always be on your side because that's how nature really works. Otherwise, you'll get stuck in local optimum of following the crowd. No offense to the author, I am glad things worked out for you the way it did. Remember, they won't work out for others and if I were you, I would not speak with such confidence and authority - it stands on stilts.