There’s one key premise that made me moderately successful in my previous career: Never take anyone’s word for things that will be critically important to your decision making.
An example: I wasn’t an accountant (I’d be the worst accountant, seriously). We’d get these in-house accountant summaries of financials, a neat few pages covering dozens of boxes of paperwork. Everybody was using the summaries. Everybody but Jake. I’d kept an eye on the in-house accountants, and I didn’t trust them. I had my own guy (kid in school for accounting), subsidized his tuition being my eyes on numbers. He dug through boxes and had brilliant insights and taught me a lot about how numbers on a sheet can tell incredibly detailed and revealing stories.
My philosophy at some point had become that I always wanted to know enough about a subject so I could do a round of interviews and tell you who would be good for the job, and who wouldn’t. Know enough to know when there’s bullshit brewing.
I want teach you at the very least enough to where you can see the b…….sh*t coming, when it comes to recommendations for controlling your myopia. It’s not that complicated at all and once you know, your eyes will be a lot safer for it.
From the e-mails:
And that’s how it should work out.
I’m never asking you to take my word for anything. I want you to know what diopters are, how the eye works, how to find relevant clinical science and most importantly, how to try these concepts yourself, and measure results.
Nice work, Will! And thanks for taking the time to share your story!
Housekeeping: No post yesterday, the self-experiment gone awry took a (hopefully last) turn for the worse. Perhaps a good future blog post on the topic of science, trying stuff the Internet raves about, and ideally not accidentally maiming yourself with questionable supplements.
Cheers!
-Jake
