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I think the invitation to subscribe to the author's newsletter at the bottom of the page is ironic. Love the label "insight-porn" though. Concisely captures th

I think the invitation to subscribe to the author's newsletter at the bottom of the page is ironic. Love the label "insight-porn" though. Concisely captures the nauseous feeling of ingesting your 100th self help book.

anthropodie 4y ago
When there's is so much to consume one does wander do we really need this much to survive or to be a better self? I mean people have been living on this planet for 1000s of years without access to as much info as today.
- ChildOfChaos 4y ago
  We also have such limited time/attention/energy. If you take the time a lot of people spend consuming content, like insight porn / productivity porn etc and instead spent that time doing more and reflecting more, you'd still likely be in a better place than the consumer
jjulius 4y ago
It would be one thing if it was just something like, "Hey, subscribe to my blog if you wanna!", but it's actually: >PS: Looking for More? >If you’d like to get more honest strategies and proven frameworks for winning in life and business, then simply join my free newsletter here. ... which yeah, sounds like, "Sign up for some insight porn!".
keyle 4y ago
I laughed at that too. It feels like his blog is the revenge porn of hindsight porn! I did enjoy the article though. A lot of commonsense but no real actionable takeouts though... wait a minute...
abecedarius 4y ago
The term was coined, afaik, by Sarah Perry in this blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104183908/http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com:80/2012/09/trying-to-see-through-unified-theory-of.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180104183908/http://theviewfro... Words will evolve, but I wanna say she was going for something higher level than self-help.
- contextfree 4y ago
  yeah, was going to post that what he describes doesn't fit my idea of "insight porn" as it originated from the postratsphere. I might classify both his topic and his post itself as "hustleporn"

anthropodie 4y ago

When there's is so much to consume one does wander do we really need this much to survive or to be a better self? I mean people have been living on this planet for 1000s of years without access to as much info as today.

ChildOfChaos 4y ago
We also have such limited time/attention/energy. If you take the time a lot of people spend consuming content, like insight porn / productivity porn etc and instead spent that time doing more and reflecting more, you'd still likely be in a better place than the consumer

jjulius 4y ago

It would be one thing if it was just something like, "Hey, subscribe to my blog if you wanna!", but it's actually: >PS: Looking for More? >If you’d like to get more honest strategies and proven frameworks for winning in life and business, then simply join my free newsletter here. ... which yeah, sounds like, "Sign up for some insight porn!".

keyle 4y ago

I laughed at that too. It feels like his blog is the revenge porn of hindsight porn! I did enjoy the article though. A lot of commonsense but no real actionable takeouts though... wait a minute...

abecedarius 4y ago

The term was coined, afaik, by Sarah Perry in this blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104183908/http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com:80/2012/09/trying-to-see-through-unified-theory-of.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180104183908/http://theviewfro... Words will evolve, but I wanna say she was going for something higher level than self-help.

contextfree 4y ago
yeah, was going to post that what he describes doesn't fit my idea of "insight porn" as it originated from the postratsphere. I might classify both his topic and his post itself as "hustleporn"