[tyre]

I think this is generally true of Naval.

He tweets these vague pseudo-philosophical koans, things that look fine as 280 character retweets. It's fine for self-branding and he's certainly played the genre well.

But that middle ground between advice directly relevant to a practical question and a nuanced, deeply investigated ethical framework isn't as self-helpful as marketed.

It's those things people read and _feel_ like they've done some life-work today (and perhaps that's what people really want.)

As you point out, much content by well-known, materially successful people is a post-hoc constructed narrative to explain why they are where they are.