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I followed the author's links to the course they got started with, and it's all just very self referential.

Buy this course I'm selling. It will teach you to do the stuff I did to make this thing that I got you to pay me for.

I skimmed. 4-hour workweek some years ago (I downloaded it) and I realized that it was pretty meta. The thing you're reading is the thing he's "teaching" you to do. This whole article smacks of that. "Wow my passive income was just too effective." I'm not crying that he doesn't have time to write. It sounds like if he really had that time dedicated to writing he would churn out more self help block posts or booklets anyway. He doesn't seem to describe any other sort of writing that he does? Just navel gazing, tallying his passive income etc? I kind of wish he had no time at all to write.

This is 99% of the "creator" economy.

Making content for the 99% who haven't become successful content marketers yet.

Super boring in my opinion, and exploitative to some extent.

Yes, he's very much in the educational product passive income space.

At the end of the day most "gurus" doing this seem to fall into it and it gets a bit recursive. Ramit Sethi seems like an archetypical influencer here.

I've noticed this too in the indie hackers community. Some people look around and realize they're part of a gold rush and then realize it's more lucrative to sell shovels. The more shovels you sell, the more successful you become, and the more you self-promote your success.

Most of the blog post just feels like a humblebrag.

Barely made it halfway through. The post was largely an exercise in bragging.

The secret to becoming rich: "get people to pay you to tell them the secret to becoming rich"

Its a pyramid scheme distilled to the fundamentals.

> Buy this course I'm selling. It will teach you to do the stuff I did to make this thing that I got you to pay me for.

That sounds a lot like a pyramid scheme... scratch that, it is a pyramid scheme.

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