I think this is the best take on it. It's actually full of specific actionable advice, it's just very little of it is stuff I'd actually use (IIRC there's a fai

I think this is the best take on it. It's actually full of specific actionable advice, it's just very little of it is stuff I'd actually use (IIRC there's a fair bit of "how to outsource technical bits of having a web presence" which probably isn't recommendations the HN crowd's looking for). And if I was convinced my mailbox was busy enough to benefit from a personal assistant in the Philippines, the advice on where to find them is probably a bit out of date, though IIRC the advice on evaluating freelancers is solid enough. But it's core thesis is "Pick a side project in a niche you know and like. Charge money for stuff in it. Value your time. You don't need hockey stick growth followed by a seven figure exit to have most of the tangible lifestyle benefits of being rich if you have low-maintenance recurring revenue" which is actually much better advice than the "how I quit my job to work twice as many hours for less money building a loss-making business propped up by VC money" blogs for many of the people browsing HN. But it's written by a pill-selling huckster with some dubious anecdotes, and somehow the four hour claim gets more attention than PG's even more exaggreated claim that startups are about compressing your entire working life down to four years! I get the feeling if instead of being a bestselling book written by a guy with a background in the shadier areas of ecommerce it was a series of Medium blogs written by a web developer, it'd be a lot more popular here for its messaging, even if nobody purchased a single service from his long list of recommendations.