Steve Jobs and Mark Cuban Give Opposite Advice—and Both Are Right

Most advice is right for the person giving it

Steve Jobs told Stanford graduates to follow their passion; Mark Cuban says follow your effort instead. Rohan Mahtani argues most advice is really right for the person giving it, shaped by their own wiring. Rather than copying rules, ask whether the situation behind them matches yours, test ideas with small experiments, and use AI to argue the opposite side rather than as an oracle.

The human brain has a pathetic flaw: we routinely mistake confidence for competence.

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2026-10-21