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Gladwell is a meme-optimizer, and he's got it dialed in perfectly for his audience. Same with Ferriss, but for a different audience. Kiyosaki, same. The tech
by carsongross 13y ago
Gladwell is a meme-optimizer, and he's got it dialed in perfectly for his audience. Same with Ferriss, but for a different audience. Kiyosaki, same.
The techniques are amazingly well executed, even if (or especially because) the practitioners are sociopaths. That doesn't mean they are always wrong or offering bad analysis, but it does mean that meme-optimization (certainty, in-group/out-group creation, etc.) will trump the truth.
- innino 13y agoDo you think Gladwell and Ferriss are sociopaths? Why?
- lmm 13y agoFerriss openly advocates falsely claiming to be an expert on a subject, and pretty blatantly acquired fake 5-star reviews on amazon when launching his books. He also talks about e.g. gaming the weigh-in for a kickboxing tournament to compete in a category two below his natural one, and then pushing all the other competitors off the platform to abuse the TKO rule rather than doing any actual kickboxing. He does not come across as a nice guy.
- icelancer 13y agoFerriss is obviously a borderline scam-artist. Just read the titles of his books. For more detailed information, you can search out blog posts by others (or by him!) where it's blatantly obvious he spammed Amazon, blogs, and other services with MTurk-like workers to promote his brand. Not to mention cheating the push-hands tournament (if in spirit and not law necessarily), etc.
- innino 13y agoI was already aware of a lot of this, didn't mean to appear like I was doubting the claim - I mostly wanted to hear this stuff from a fresh mouth.