https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/o4vqe8/productivity_videos_on_youtube_is_nothing_more/ https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/16ji6r9/the_irony_of_productivity_content_shortcuts_and/ ## Productivity gurus sell themselves to make the audience the product They live their life to show the benefits of following their methodologies. Standards and expectations can become extreme and unrealistic for the average person, leading to [[Hustle Culture]]. This is all to get you to buy something from them in [[Marketing]] fashion. > I just want to find a show by someone who also seems like they struggle with stuff a bit, but manages to get it done anyway. Not someone who seems perfectly polished and effortless. ## Critique 1. Typical, but highly-productive productive person with typical job creates content talking about the systems they use to work efficiently. 2. People who like to feel productive consume the content, want to keep feeling productive by proxy, and ask for more of the content (so they can keep feeling productive). 3. Creator quits their more typical job to talk about productivity full time. 4. Their productivity systems become systems used to create content about productivity systems, and becomes significantly less useful for a typical user. 5. The people who like to feel productive watch in droves, because consuming content about how someone is creating productivity content is how to be productive. Yes? 6. Profit. ### Examples [[Is Obsidian the True Second Brain]] His comments all seem to bash Tiago Forte and Nick Milo which is interesting. The point of paying is for convenience, some people just see PKM as a tool that they want to optimize just like exercise, and they want someone to tell them the best practices so they can focus on their main pursuit. Yes they are just extensions of existing ideas, but the added marketing and nuance helps you realize the applications of the new philosophies. ## Actual creatives - struthless