After listing useful advice he's received over the years, the author appropriately offers some critial meta-advice: write down (and analyze) advice that <i>you</i> find interesting in order to put it into practice.
<i>“Power unexercised is pointless”</i><p>Hopefully Pakistan doesn't feel that way about its nuclear arsenal.<p>I found that example perplexing. He puts the company into liquidation without discussing it with the other shareholders first. Why is this a good thing?
<i>“If you get to thirty and you still think persuasion is about making a logical argument, you have already lost”</i><p>I feel this kind of advice, that comes in many variations, has one major pitfall: you need to do <i>more</i> than make a logical argument, but often you still need the logical argument. People smell bullshit a mile away and get properly annoyed when someone tries to sell them some.