Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

Most Advice Is a Memoir

What other people's experience can and cannot tell you about your own

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Eric Near
Jul 21, 2026
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The most useful thing I learned about advice I learned too late, and the way I learned it was expensive. So here it is for free.

Advice is autobiographical. Every piece of it. The person giving it to you is telling you what happened to them, what they concluded from it, and what they would do again. They are not, and cannot be, telling you what will happ…

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