Wade Foster

I think my 20-year-old self probably took that a little too far, and I probably could have done a better job at listening.

Yeah, I think so.

But, um, there are certainly best practices have become best practice for a reason.

Uh, if you approach things with sort of a first principles sort of thinking mentality and break things down a bit, try and understand the root cause, um, you know, which best practices are there for a reason.

And then, you know, which ones are kind of just BS and they exist to, you know, serve some other purposes.

Uh, Chesterton's fence is one of my favorite, uh,

like, uh, logical things.

I haven't heard of this Chesterton's fence.

Uh, it's just like a good way to think about decision-making.

So I think some us policymaker introduced this concept and it's, um, if you move into a neighborhood and there exists a fence that you don't like an ugly fence, uh, and you want to take it down,

before you take it down, you should figure out why the fence exists in the first place.

If you understand the reasons for why the fence existed in the first place, then feel free to go take it down.

But if you don't understand yet, you should probably not take it down quite yet.

Uh, and so I think it's a really powerful way to think about decision-making is if you're proposing something, if you're proposing to stop, do something, you really should understand the reasoning behind it first.

And once you do, feel free to make whatever, you can draw whatever conclusions you want from that and go whatever direction you think, contrarian or not.

But until you reach that point, you might want to reserve judgment.

Yeah, thanks, Nathan.