“I usually xyz, unless you recommend something else…”
“Can you say that in more/different words?”
“I don’t know.”
Good advice for any professional or non-intimate situation, not just ‘in the city’ as Frank writes.
"I felt like a fraud every day. Here I was, selling a wobbly, buggy tool and pawning myself off as an expert in a field that didn't exist. (My software was the first commercial tool for code review.) Every second I felt like I was putting one over on the world."
On why entrepreneurs and health food nuts are living right, and cubiclones are missing something. "In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally."