Stop Talking
8 days ago
- #self-preservation
- #advice-giving
- #professional-growth
- Experience brings awareness of inefficiencies and problems in systems.
- Unsolicited advice often goes unheeded due to inconvenience, social awkwardness, or misaligned incentives.
- Brainpower spent on unrequested improvements is finite and often wasted.
- Context matters—being a 'good consultant' vs. 'annoying senior sysadmin' depends on whether the audience opted in.
- Key survival skill: knowing when to stop offering unsolicited advice to preserve resources and self.