With slowly increasing frequency, I am asked for my advice on life or careers,

or something similar. Let us put aside worries about this sign of my increasing

decrepitude or the poor taste that some people show in those from whom they

seek advice. The brutal truth is that most of the advice that I've received as

an adult - nearly all of which has been well intentioned - has not been right

for me. I therefore assume that any advice I might give others would be equally

wrong, and so I try and avoid doing so. In this blog post, I will try to

enumerate the problems I have with advice as it is commonly given and look at

one way that we can do things differently.