This doesn’t pattern-match to a sales-pitch at all. What does Louie stand to gain by you following his advice?
As your post stands, you make six whole paragraphs out of cherry-picked quotes and “this sounds persuasive”. Most egregious of all is your conclusion:
There are many ways to optimize one’s income and savings rates.
As if this is somehow a point against Louie!
Self promotion is a form of sales. Had this been posted directly on Tim Ferriss’s blog, I’d have not noticed a difference in writing style.
How is this self-promotion? Louie makes the argument generally, and then provides a specific example he has on hand (himself), but I’m going to need more evidence than an accusation to believe the purpose of this post was to self-promote.
This doesn’t pattern-match to a sales-pitch at all. What does Louie stand to gain by you following his advice?
As your post stands, you make six whole paragraphs out of cherry-picked quotes and “this sounds persuasive”. Most egregious of all is your conclusion:
As if this is somehow a point against Louie!
Self promotion is a form of sales. Had this been posted directly on Tim Ferriss’s blog, I’d have not noticed a difference in writing style.
How is this self-promotion? Louie makes the argument generally, and then provides a specific example he has on hand (himself), but I’m going to need more evidence than an accusation to believe the purpose of this post was to self-promote.