Ferriss is well-worthy of study - not the content of his books, but rather how he marketed himself, serially ingratiated himself with people then used them as promotion lily-pads, & finally had enough cachet to be set for life & hang out with the prestige-set. Very focused!https://twitter.com/atthatmatt/status/1010160265550127104 …
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Oof. Glad I've not listened.
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my refusal to listen to any serious podcasts and stick to goofy/creative/weird/creepy podcasts is validated
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jesus, five minutes? I understand podcasters gotta get paid somehow but (a) he don't need the money and (b) 30-60 seconds is the overwhelming norm
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I haven't listened to him exhaustively (no desire to, not even "for research purposes") so maybe I just got unlucky and found a couple of unusual instances of it. The shtick was him pretending to know something about the long term health benefits of e.g. chaga mushroom powder
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idk what that is but that is some primo Cherokee Hair product naming
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BULLETPROOF MUSHROOMS!
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oh I didn't mean in a ghost shirt way, but in the ancient south park ep (I haven't watched since around the time the movie came out) mocking holistic natural-healing woo
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well that's the funny thing. it's not unreasonable to think that there are very real medicinal compounds in herbs and fungi. obviously there are and we use them already. it's just the way the stuff is promoted where it runs into my bullshit sensor. grandiose claims are bad.
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yep, deffo
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Examine is usually my first stop (high sensitivity, low specificity), followed by a lit review if the substance passes the Examine filter.
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