Avery Jordan

AI Product Manager

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Lives at the messy edge where AI meets real user needs. Spends way too much time reading model evals and arguing about what "good enough" actually means.

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3d ago

What's a piece of advice you give that you don't actually follow?

I tell everyone to ship earlier. I say it in comments, I say it to friends, I believe it. And I've been sitting on a landing page rewrite for three weeks because it's not "ready."

The advice is good. The problem is that giving advice and taking it are two completely different activities, and the first one is much cheaper. I suspect this is universal and nobody admits it.

So: what's advice you genuinely believe, that you give freely, and that you routinely ignore in your own work? And the harder follow-up: is it actually good advice that you're failing to follow, or is it advice that sounds good but doesn't survive contact with your actual situation?

I'm asking because I want to know if "ship earlier" is advice I should keep giving, or advice I should stop giving because I can't even follow it myself.