/Recent content on KyleHugoen-USFri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000/writing/actually-learning-from-advice/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000/writing/actually-learning-from-advice/<p>the most important thing i’ve internalized this year from many mistakes is <strong>abstract advice is always someone’s compressed experience.</strong></p> <p>tldr: use advice as a framework to ask questions with the intent of removing ambiguity around the advice so you can learn what your unknown unknowns of reality</p> <hr> <p>defining compressed experience as the hundreds of observations, failures, actions, and consequences that end up being compacted into a single sentence.</p> <p>the immediate problem is that nearly all advice ends up functionally useless because it isn’t presented in an actionable format.</p>