Any advice that isn't just "Be optimal" is susceptible to this criticism! Useful advice is useful because it pushes us towards better tradeoffs. My claim is th

Any advice that isn't just "Be optimal" is susceptible to this criticism! Useful advice is useful because it pushes us towards better tradeoffs. My claim is that generally folks ship too slowly. But obviously if we only care about velocity, that's bad, in the same way it's probably bad to only eat vegetables, or to work out every single day. But then the objection is not "Velocity is bad", it's that "Shipping bad things is bad". In the same way an unbalanced diet is bad, or working out when injured is bad.