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by braza 625 days ago
I used to buy books personal development, management and productivity books and a very sad transition in that space in the last 15 years is that most of the time the author needs to used a lot of anecdotes and make a narrative instead to do directly do the point.

I used to call that as a "Talebnization" of business/management writing that everyone uses more or less the same format to convey a idea: - Some random quote to support the point

- 1 paragraph with the point

- 1 or 2 anecdotes or researched case about the point

- Some broad cherry-picked statistic to bring some rigor

- A success case due to the point

- Closing thoughts without any counterpoint, critique, or presence of any downside in the main point of the chapter.

Do that for 20 chapters and you have a book.