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"Most successful people have one common behaviour: disseminate advice based on survivorship bias all the time."

>These pithy rules and sayings make for clickbait

Internet comment sections hate nuance and critical thinking (yes, even HN, we just put lipstick on that pig by being polite and kicking out snarky comments) so it's not surprising they love rules of thumb (which are nearly the polar opposite of applying critical thinking and considering nuances).

"say no to X"

"say yes to X"

"always do X"

"never do X"

Etc. etc. etc.

Steve Jobs was asked for an example at the D conference, and he said PDAs.

If you read anything by Jason Fried, or watch some of his talks, you’ll get plenty of concrete examples.