Finished reading (Th)ings and (Th)oughts
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Finished reading They: A Sequence of Unease
Finished reading The Name on the Wall: A Novel
Rated Penpreneur How to Make Six Figures Writing One Thing a Month 2/10
Penpreneur gives the game away with it's title: it's a cheap and easy on-ramp to a far more manipulative easy-money-scheme ecosystem that filters out all but the most credulous of participants (i.e., anyone who'd think Penpreneur was a good title, let alone one indicative of a writer worth their salt). The book even explicitly cops to this, trusting that those not filtered out by the knowledge that they're being sold a bill of goods will be all the more willing applicants to the author's publishing platform and vaguely cult-y lifestyle brand. Appeals to anti-a.i. sentiment ring hollow given how simpatico this kind of scheme is with generative a.i. slop, and extended quotes from other self-help gurus prove the "One Book Theory" from If Books Could Kill remains undefeated.<br/><br/>Any self-help book designed to be read in a single sitting is trying to use that easy sense of accomplishment to start you down a path where you spend more money on whatever else the author's selling. The first real step to success is to respect yourself enough to not buy in.
Finished reading Something to Do with Paying Attention
Finished reading Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Rated The Inimitable Jeeves 7/10
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