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0 pointsmichaelchisari7y ago0 comments

That describes every "self-help" type book, where you take a single positive but novel concept or attribute, and find a way to talk about it long enough to fill something that can be printed and sold in airport bookstores.

Eckhart Tolle has written a dozen+ books about being in the moment, for instance.

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Apocryphon7y ago

That's probably the worst aspect of Deep Work - it's written as a full-fledged pop psych self-help NYT bestseller, lacking the pithiness and the precision of his blog.

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0 pointsmichaelchisari7y ago0 comments

Eckhart Tolle has written a dozen+ books about being in the moment, for instance.

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Apocryphon7y ago

That's probably the worst aspect of Deep Work - it's written as a full-fledged pop psych self-help NYT bestseller, lacking the pithiness and the precision of his blog.

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