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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Replying to @PereGrimmer
he always struck me as a huckster and a braggart, but your analysis is more cogent and concise than my flailing 'dude just looks like sucks'.
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Replying to @palecur
Political operators, psychopaths, and marketers are objects of study for me; I try to convert disgust into an appreciation for and understanding of methods, as these methods may be useful. (Jeffrey Pfeffer's books are a good on this.)
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @palecur
Ferris literally opens up each of his broadcasts with like a solid 5 minute block of snake oil hucksterism for whichever brand he's taking some dosh from this week. if that's not the ultimate tell of where he's really coming from I dunno what else would do it.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @palecur @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
idk what that is but that is some primo Cherokee Hair product naming
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @danlistensto
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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Replying to @palecur @danlistensto
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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