Yes, thank you! I'm glad that there are other people out there with the same opinion. Every Cal Newport article is riddled with links. Links to his podcast. Li

Yes, thank you! I'm glad that there are other people out there with the same opinion. Every Cal Newport article is riddled with links. Links to his podcast. Links to his books. Links to his fucking newsletter, and old posts and time block planner and on and on. Ridiculous from a self professed authority on deep work and focus. Ryan Holiday meanwhile is the classic American success story isn't he? A sort of Ray Kroc-like entity. The kind of gold-rush chasing huckster in a sea of other hucksters, all alike, but one who just happened to make it big. Nothing about Holiday suggests to me that he's had a single original thougt in his life. Just repackaging with lipstick. I'll be sure to check out your recommendations. ETA: Ahh fuck it. Feel like ranting more. Maciej Ceglowski famously called Newport's and Holiday's style books "wooly business books" at airports (Lexus and the Olive Tree). Things that should be blogposts, or better still, an animated dinner party conversation, but are instead padded on and on with plodding, insufferable writing lacking any clarity of thought or lucidity in expression. Gah! ETA2: Also Maciej: Ferriss is the author of the Four Hour Workweek, the Four Hour Body, the Four Hour Orgasm. Basically if you can't do it in four hours Tim Ferriss doesn't want to talk to you.