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This book could have been a blog post.

It’s also solidly in the Privileged White Guy Does Productivity genre of books, which is vomit-inducing because books in this genre almost always have these characteristics:

  1. Stating a common-sense idea or concept as if it is a newly discovered gem of wisdom. Duh, yeah, if you get up earlier you’ll have more time and you’ll probably be less stressed! WOW.
  2. Creating a set of weird little capitalized words and phrases. Special jargon. ProductiviTerms™️. Don’t worry, there will be a course you can buy for $599 so you can learn how to create your own ProductiviTerms.
  3. Doling out advice and of-course-you-shoulds and guilt-trips and requirements from an insanely head-up-ass position of privilege.

Of course, sometimes there is good, solid advice in these books. But I think usually the benefit comes from adopting the mindset it takes to write a book like this — not the head-up-ass part, but the unquestioned confidence part.

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