On an uncharitable reading, this sounds like two wide-eyed broscientist prophets who found The One Right Way To Have A Successful Career (because by doing this their career got successful, of course), and are now preaching The Good Word by running an uncontrolled, unblinded experiment for which you pay 100$ just to be one of the lucky test subjects.
Note that this is from someone who’s never heard of “Cal Newport” or “Scott H. Young” before now, or perhaps just doesn’t recognize the names. The facts that they’ve sold popular books with “get better” in the description and that they are socially-recognized as scientists are rather impressive, but doesn’t substantially raise my priors of this working or not.
So if you’ve already tried some of their advice in enough quantity that your updated belief that any given advice from them will work is high enough and stable enough, this seems more than worth 100$.
Just the possible monetary benefits probably outweigh the upfront costs if it works, and even without that, depending on the kind of career you’re in, the VoI and RoI here might be quite high, so depending on one’s career situation this might need only a 30% to 50% probability of being useful for it to be worth the time and money.
Note that this is from someone who’s never heard of “Cal Newport” or “Scott H. Young” before now, or perhaps just doesn’t recognize the names.
They seem to get more respect on LW than average career advice bloggers, so I was hoping someone who was familiar would comment. Nonetheless, I’m upvoting you because it’s good to hear an outsider’s opinion.
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On an uncharitable reading, this sounds like two wide-eyed broscientist prophets who found The One Right Way To Have A Successful Career (because by doing this their career got successful, of course), and are now preaching The Good Word by running an uncontrolled, unblinded experiment for which you pay 100$ just to be one of the lucky test subjects.
Note that this is from someone who’s never heard of “Cal Newport” or “Scott H. Young” before now, or perhaps just doesn’t recognize the names. The facts that they’ve sold popular books with “get better” in the description and that they are socially-recognized as scientists are rather impressive, but doesn’t substantially raise my priors of this working or not.
So if you’ve already tried some of their advice in enough quantity that your updated belief that any given advice from them will work is high enough and stable enough, this seems more than worth 100$.
Just the possible monetary benefits probably outweigh the upfront costs if it works, and even without that, depending on the kind of career you’re in, the VoI and RoI here might be quite high, so depending on one’s career situation this might need only a 30% to 50% probability of being useful for it to be worth the time and money.
They seem to get more respect on LW than average career advice bloggers, so I was hoping someone who was familiar would comment. Nonetheless, I’m upvoting you because it’s good to hear an outsider’s opinion.