I look back on my time as a consultant, and I think we largely did good work. I just personally found it frustrating how much time we spent spinning our wheels

I look back on my time as a consultant, and I think we largely did good work. I just personally found it frustrating how much time we spent spinning our wheels vs making progress. I spent 6 months on a slide deck that no one ended up looking at. If I had one takeaway, it's that our clients were entirely too risk averse. Rather than just start executing on something and learn along the way, they would rather front-load every business decision with 500 hours of coordination and planning meetings. And as consultants, we were incentivized to enable this type of behavior. I think it's pretty telling that, while I believe consultants can provide value and do good work, I have to admit that I never would have hired myself on any of the projects that I worked on.