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emma-w

>And of course the author knows.

Author here, I don't actually know, I'm still learning.

But I know that by observation most of my peers are truly ignorant and just winging it.

Fixing that would make life better for everyone.

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>Author here, I don't actually know

Why are you writing authoritatively about something you know you don´t actually know then?

My take away was that the author doesn't necessarily claim to have all the answers here. It's more of a list of general guidance that is reverse engineered from the type of behavior the she observed was definitely unsuccessful.

Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date. From where I sit it looks to me like they are more focused on milking endowments than discovering what is happening in the real world.

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