What percent of academic papers are worth reading? What percent of summaries of academic papers are worth reading? I’m very skeptical of the value of this advice in a whole bunch of ways.https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1195944940116828161 …
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I think the advice is for academics, you'd be on the other end of it. It's basically marketing, his and your incentives are not the same.
I don't think it's for academics. Silicon Valley loves to smart-signal and that is most likely what this is for. As for his incentives and mine? I think they're actually pretty similar. We're both trying to build an audience on Twitter and elsewhere though he's better at it.
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There are a lot of young guys whose main accomplishment seems to be their twitter following and he's one of them. Michael Mayer, Sahil Lavingia, this guy... People/kids/whatever seeking to learn would be wise to avoid them. They're better at writing than doing.
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Sidenote: I never really figured out who's Michael Mayer. He seemed like some Naval adjacent guy. I never followed him and yet my feed was full of his stuff somehow.
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Ah so you are skeptical as in it's not worth copying his sales methods for yourself. I misunderstood you, I thought you meant his advice is wrong because he's pushing useless products.
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I'm rereading your tweet, maybe you meant both.
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