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Modern "books". A lot of the problem is that these books, like atomic habits, aren't actually vehicles for information transfer. They're growth hacking blog spa
by goostavos 3y ago
Modern "books". A lot of the problem is that these books, like atomic habits, aren't actually vehicles for information transfer. They're growth hacking blog spam. See also: Deep Work, The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck (one of the cringiest things I've read), etc... With this style of book, it's almost always evident by mid-way through chapter 01 that there's no actual book-length warranting content present. They all share that same padded undergrad college paper style of saying nothing about anything by massively over quoting and citing things that don't need quoted or cited.
- Apocryphon 3y agoDeep Work was such an egregious example of betraying its own principles by cluttering up a thesis for the sake of the NYT bestselling list and in doing so wasting its readers’ time.