Letters from Sanford Street # 510

I'm cold. It isn't freezing, but the clouds from earlier this morning have hung around.

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What was it? Sometimes, when people offer advice, it isn't advice based off of experice, or real life struggles, the advice is based off of thought experiments or ideas, or even second or third hand accounts that themselves may or may not have originally been thought experiments or ideas to begin with. And nobody ever makes this clear, that the advice is based on experience, a thought experiment, an article, or a second hand account. Regardless of thr source, you're going to be responsible for the consequences of taking and acting on that advice.

I was offering advice, or maybe not offering advice, but offering an account of a number of struggles I faced the first few times I bought a car, and had to deal with repairs and things like that.

I don't want to call it advice. It's more like sharing experiences. I was sharing experiences, struggles, and actions I took in response to the struggles and challenges I faced.

Anyway, someone else interrupted me, and started sharing hypothetical ideas and shit, and it irked me that so many people pass off ideas as workable courses of action.