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> All writing on business and/or productivity flirts with the prospect of being a negative ROI time investment since it keeps you from doing business and being

• shawn-furyan 13y ago
  I'm speaking of ROI to the reader. Of course the business/self-help/productivity literature industry extracts a lot of return for its authors/publishers/distributors without necessarily providing equal value to its customers. This is not what I'm commenting on, nor is it interesting to me. So I didn't overlook the point so much as not give a shit about the undeserved return that the author got from writing this drivel. There are a lot of self-proclaimed gurus that will come up with numbered steps and claim that they are broadly generalize-able, but are in fact just too vague to easily disprove. I think that this is a destructive act on balance, for various reasons, and so it is worthy of derision. In fact, it's kind of funny that this article specifically claims to be "actionable" when it's anything but. It's a collection of vague and unoriginal principles. And like so many of its ilk, not worthy of anyone's time.