There's a huge difference between Tim Ferris and Eric Ries. If you made these charges against Ferris, I'd agree with you. Ferris is constantly self promoting,

There's a huge difference between Tim Ferris and Eric Ries. If you made these charges against Ferris, I'd agree with you. Ferris is constantly self promoting, and attempting to cultivate a cult of personality. I know what Tim Ferris looks like because his mug is on everything he does. I have no clue what Eric looks like. I find Eric makes suggestions that are far less obvious than Ferris. I find that Eric promotes his ideas over himself. The accusation that this is all just "existing ideas" is kinda silly, given how infrequently this perspective existed even in cutting edge circles like "Hacker News" even a couple years ago. It has started getting traction, this is true, but 5 years ago, it was a radical idea, and 3 years ago, there were very few practitioners and 2 years ago it wasn't even a movement. In fact, I strongly suspect that Reis is the source of the ideas that Ferris used in his book.