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Surviving Advice Season

CJ Chilvers
CJ Chilvers
— 1 min read

The new year is almost upon us, which means we’re about to enter advice season. Yay!

My only advice for surviving advice season is to add the following caveats to everything you’re told:

  • If it’s about AI, add: “…for now.” or “…yet.”
  • If it’s about productivity, focus, or creativity, add: “…for some brains.”
  • If it’s about fitness, add: “…for those with similar genetics.”
  • If it’s about monetization, add: “…for the short-term.”
  • If it’s about sales, add: “…and proper marketing solves for this in the long-term.”
  • If it’s about marketing, add: “…but relationships are always more important.”
  • If it’s about tactics, add: “…as long as it matches our strategy.”
  • If it’s about strategy, add: “…as long as it matches our principles.”
  • And if it’s about resolutions, add: “…all of which is bullsh@t.”

I hope you have a wonderful start to 2025.

Thanks for reading! — CJ

P.S. “Every time I’m preaching something…I have to precede that with a story where I eat sh@t, so the reader can stomach it….After that, you can stomach me going, ‘So here’s the lesson I learned from it.’” — Matthew McConaughey on how to properly give advice