Chris Williamson
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Podcast Appearances
They're an aggregate of everything.
But, I mean, let's say, for instance, that you had a distribution of people on a graph that looked like a pair of boobs.
So you have sort of two there.
Where's the average?
It's actually at a point where maybe nobody is.
You know?
This is the problem with doing it.
And I understand.
sweeping generalizations about advice is something that I've always steered away from when I can.
And it's been massively to the detriment of my credibility.
I've done other things that are massively to the detriment of my credibility as well.
But one of the reasons is people love certainty.
They love absolutes.
They love certainty.
And this goes back to the fact that
uncertainty is very difficult to deal with if i listen to someone who says well we know we know that this is the case we know what israel is doing we know how much protein you should have per day we know what the best sleep formula is yeah well fucking hell like i don't need to worry anymore all the chaos of the world all of the different directions that things could have gone in
I don't need to wrangle with that.
And it's way less sexy to say, well, it's directionally correct that.
It seems to be the case that in most circumstances, I would estimate that it is good to... It's way less sexy...
But it's much more accurate for people.