I agree too. I have the same feeling about Scott Young's newsletters. They both seem talk a lot but don't provide the same level of value they used. Then again, this article is from 2015.

> The best way to improve your ability to think is to actually spend time thinking.

> Good decision makers understand a simple truth: you can’t make good decisions without good thinking and good thinking requires time.

One I still subscribe to is James Clear, I really like his 3-2-1 newsletters every thursday.

One from a few weeks ago:

> "Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem.

> If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome."

It’s self-help. Usually the half life of those is a few articles and then you kind of know that they’ll just repeat that until people stop paying attention to them

same... this article doesn't actually seem to cover its own topic. One has to wonder if the article itself was written slowly, or rushed to production to garner more clicks?

I would have loved to learn about how to synthesize and filter what you read, and at what point your amount of stuff to read reaches saturation. I always hear "I read all the books I could find!" but that's an impossible statement for almost any field — I just want to know if there's an agreed upon state where one can feel that one has read everything available to start thinking for oneself and forming original thoughts.

I had the exact same impression. It has become so watered down and superficial.