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Let's see if it hits all the Zeitgeist buzzwords:

- Rational

- Buddhism

- Rational Buddhism

- Meditation

- Habits

- Accountability

- Happiness is a choice

- Prioritize

- Sapiens as a top 'recommended book'

- And, to top it all off: Foreword by Tim Ferriss.

Yep, I think we've covered them all.

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what's wrong with any of them?

Middle brow dismissal. It’s like the people who dismiss productivity advice as all being the same when the reason it’s mostly the same is it works and the doing it is the hard part.

> Paul Graham, News.YC’s moderator emeritus, says that “The defining quality of the middlebrow dismissal is that it’s a cache dump of the writer’s prejudices…” This probably explains why they’re so common. It’s natural to see any news story as confirmation of your existing prejudices—but it’s easy to read confirmation where it’s not there.

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...

We started using the term "shallow dismissal" after a while (it appears in the site guidelines that way) because the word middlebrow is more triggering to people. It's more likely to land as a judgment on the person, where the word shallow is more able to bind to the comment, which is where it belongs.

Nothing, but the actual engagement with any of these ideas is approximately 0%. In a work presenting itself as the collected Almanack of Wisdom by a Wise Man, one would hope to see more than pithy collection of buzzwords and advice, all centered on "Getting rich." If the primary reason you're interested in Buddhist techniques is to make money, I think you may have missed the point.

If Silicon Valley (the satirical TV show) had a book version, it would look something like this.

> If Silicon Valley (the satirical TV show) had a book version, it would look something like this.

This can't be farther than the truth. I advise you at least try to peruse it a bit before resorting to such commentary. The point isn't to make money at all.

I have perused it, considerably. Perhaps Naval's best "work", if you can call it that, is entitled How to Get Rich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TZqOsVCNM

Right off the bat, he makes some pretty silly arguments, such as: people/journalists only criticize the rich because they're playing a status game and want to be rich too. That's it. It really is that simple according to Naval.

His entire oeuvre has the same level of intellectual calibre.

Haha, agree!

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