Comment by lurking_swe
5 days ago
i try not to judge people holistically when listening to them give advice in a very narrow area, like work in this case. We all have faults, some more than others obviously.
Example: a rapist could be an EXCELLENT plumber as his occupation. One has nothing to do with the other. Pretending like they have no useful plumbing advice to give just makes one look silly.
Steve jobs was a shit human being. But i won’t sit here and pretend he wasn’t a visionary product person, or a person that thought deeply about work, our relation with technology, etc.
For what it’s worth I agree it’s reductive. Most 1-2 sentence life advice is…so not too surprising. :)
For most working folks, work is about one half of their waking hours. Nothing about that is "narrow". Do your consider advice about sleep to be similarly narrow? It uses about the same time as work.