I'm in academia. This is unquestionably bad advice. Micromanagers in the academia are able to virtue signal a lot, sweating and wringing their hands about all s

I'm in academia. This is unquestionably bad advice. Micromanagers in the academia are able to virtue signal a lot, sweating and wringing their hands about all sorts of trivial stuff, bloviating over email and acting tense. However, in the medium run of about two decades, I've seen that thesis supervisors who take things easy achieve almost as much in terms of publications etc. while having the bonus of maintaining cordial relations which are important in the long run.