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		marcosdumay on July 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Where do you go for sound career advice? It's not that they are wrong. The problem with "friends and family" is that the last group you'll want to take advice from is a democracy. If you reach specific people, carefully selected to ask specific questions, you'll get useful answers. If you go away asking people at random, you'll get answers that can not be used even as a popularity pool.

lordnacho on July 7, 2015 [–]

It's not like they get to vote. The point is friends and family are more likely to contain informed opinions than randoms.

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