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Good post. The metaphor is fair.

I remember being annoyed by way to many "insights" and "words of advice" that sounded plausible but in environments that were way too unattainable for me at the time, hence:

A) Not really plausible at all.

B) Too much self-referential and tautologic.

They pretended too much to be useful good advice but was actually just either show-off of success in disguise (false modesty/success porn) or tautologic; like "To be a multimillionaire just need to spend less than you earn but not earn low enough". Huh? Even a pigeon is smart enough to not need to hear that.




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