This piece brought to mind a funny story I heard Neil DeGrasse Tyson tell. He noticed in the movie Titanic that the night sky was wrong in one of the scenes and it bugged him. He wrote a letter to him and never heard back. Years later, he ended up sitting next to the director James Cameron at a dinner gala thing and he couldn't resist pointing it out again. James heard him out and then said, "Last I checked, Titanic made $(some insane amount of money). Imagine how much more it would've made if we got the night sky right." I guess they eventually did some sort of re-release of the film later on and contacted Neil to get it right though, so Neil got the last laugh. https://youtu.be/8B6jSfRuptY
Some other articles on advice: it has to be both actionable and valid https://atis.substack.com/p/most-advice-is-pretty-bad?s=r
Some other articles on taking advice: "Beating the odds" is a bad assumption, so they need to get hurt first https://hardfork.substack.com/p/why-most-founders-dont-take-good?s=r
This piece brought to mind a funny story I heard Neil DeGrasse Tyson tell. He noticed in the movie Titanic that the night sky was wrong in one of the scenes and it bugged him. He wrote a letter to him and never heard back. Years later, he ended up sitting next to the director James Cameron at a dinner gala thing and he couldn't resist pointing it out again. James heard him out and then said, "Last I checked, Titanic made $(some insane amount of money). Imagine how much more it would've made if we got the night sky right." I guess they eventually did some sort of re-release of the film later on and contacted Neil to get it right though, so Neil got the last laugh. https://youtu.be/8B6jSfRuptY
Ha! Great story, thanks Lyle!