Author of INTROSPECT and FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD

Something that I've been thinking about, which I got from @visakanv: people who do things are able to point out tradeoffs you will encounter when you attempt to put things to practice.

Whereas non-believable people will go "blah blah this thing is good."

Writes http://commoncog.com. Books, protocols, and the art of business, from the perspective of an operator. Yes cats.

This implies that a possible test is to ask for tradeoffs, when you're not sure about the believability of the person in question.

And preferably with examples from personal experience.

Reason I've been mulling this over is because I often can't articulate why I find certain frameworks or pieces of advice more or less useful — beyond 'comes from a more/less believable person.'

I now suspect it just correlates with knowledge of tradeoffs.