Experimental History

Experimental History

Actually good advice

don’t tell someone they look like Beaker from The Muppets, etc.

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Adam Mastroianni
Aug 25, 2026
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Most advice is bad. It’s either obvious (“Don’t sweat the small stuff”—if I thought it was small, I wouldn’t be sweating it!), applicable to some people but not to others (“Be more aggressive”—some people should, sure, but other people need to cool it), or wrong (“Live every day as if it was your last”—so I should spend every day makin…

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