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I read FS regularly for months, but eventually had to give up on it because it started to feel like one big regurgitated self-help book. Maybe he really wants t
by cbron 8y ago
I read FS regularly for months, but eventually had to give up on it because it started to feel like one big regurgitated self-help book. Maybe he really wants to talk to interesting people and this is his way of doing it, but to me it seems like mostly just noise.
- avaku 8y agoI had to unsubscribe as well...
- raldu 8y agoSame here. At first it was the unique "angle" that draw me. Then progressively it became repetitive.
- gringoDan 8y agoI agree here - the first few weeks after I discovered FS, I read it regularly, but after that there were quickly diminishing marginal returns. Once you are familiar with the core mental models, most of the intellectual self-help genre (FS, James Clear, Ryan Holiday, Tim Ferris, etc.) is just rehashing the same core ideas over and over again.
- mgiannopoulos 8y agoGood lord, I matched (as a reader / mailing list subscriber) all of your examples :D That said, it’s not bad to revisit existing ideas presented in an interesting manner. These aren’t concepts that one your hear them once you can easily start using them. Inertia is an incredible force.
- noufalibrahim 8y agoHave you come across any blog or podcast which offered useful advice that didn't finally start feeling this way? Even something as well researched as Brain pickings seems to degenerate into repetitive fluff after a while.
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- cbron 8y agoNot in the "think/work smarter" genre. Taking in diverse content, like reading medium posts all by different authors, can inject new ideas. But it seems this genre has a limit to how much useful info there really is.
- selfselfself 8y agoAgree. I subscribed to their paid membership plan and it's not materially better than the free content. Well, I paid for the full year already.