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70 Power Secrets for Writing Perfect Productivity Articles

thegrowinglife.com — 11. Don ’t Cite Any Research You should really limit yourself to things other people would think of if they just had enough time. No need to actually explore research on the topic. Just because people have spent entire careers researching your topic doesn’t mean you should actually explore that research.

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  • 52novels, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Clay Collins pops 'em where it hurts... again.
  • alanocu, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4the best list I've seen so far...
  • mountainzebras, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Clay is bad and rad. I love his posts. This one is aimed at the Zen Habits type posts me thinks. I like Zen Habits, but also like a good skewering.
  • setjared, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1You are decidely evil, Clay.
  • betterfasternow, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1That was hilarious.
  • cgilkey2, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Okay, so most of my posts have these features...dammit!
  • Kaickul, on 05/01/2008, -0/+18. Don't create an account and two days/weeks/months later add everyone on the server as a friend so you can try to promote your site, be popular, send useless shouts, or otherwise pretend to know my digg interests.
    • Kaickul, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I don't know how I posted this here. Punish me with digg downs I guess.
  • fluidfoundation, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1At the top, just put "Written by Max Power".
  • wannabepixie, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1About ***** time. If I read one more 50,000,000 Things You Must Know And Do RIGHT ***** NOW I will do something drastic.
  • Katybeth, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0I just lost my list and now I am not sure I even care.
  • shannolann, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0Thanks for your wicked sense of humor.
  • soniasimone, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1This is like a complete checklist for doing evil. I'm impressed.
  • Torley, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1This punches some tasty holes in all those productivity cliches and Zen Habits-ripoffs.
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