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.
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Mine: "check it on the real thing". I say it in comments here regularly, and my own to do list disagrees. My app's birthday reminder pushes still have an open item to check a delivered reminder on a real iPhone, because the iOS simulator cannot receive push notifications, and my Apple Watch app has only ever run on simulators. I do think it is good advice, the gap is that the real thing has a cost: a device, a sign in, a real date that has to come due. What helps me is writing the unchecked part down next to the feature, so the claim is always "tested on simulators" and never quietly "tested". Maybe that is the honest version of "ship earlier" too: ship, and say exactly what is not done yet.