{"id":163916,"date":"2025-09-27T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163916"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:31:40","slug":"eat-pray-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163916","title":{"rendered":"Eat, Pray, Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.everythingisbullshit.blog\/p\/bullshit-advice\">David Pinsof writes<\/a>: Advice is rarely focused on the goals we actually have. For example, here\u2019s what the self-help section might look like if it was focused on our real goals:<\/p>\n<p>Zen and the Art of Social Climbing<\/p>\n<p>Echo-Friendly: 10 Steps to Ensconcing Yourself in a Cocoon of Ideological Conformity and Motivated Reasoning<\/p>\n<p>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Virtue Signalers<\/p>\n<p>The Lips 2 Butt Method: Take Control of Your Life by Sycophantically Ingratiating Yourself with High-Status People<\/p>\n<p>Own It: Keep Rival Male\u2019s Sperm out of Your Mate\u2019s Vagina<\/p>\n<p>You Can Do It! How to Harness the Power of Moral Ambiguity and Plausible Deniability to Rationalize Your Fucked-Up Behavior<\/p>\n<p>Eat, Pray, Confabulate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pinsof writes: Advice is rarely focused on the goals we actually have. For example, here\u2019s what the self-help section might look like if it was focused on our real goals: Zen and the Art of Social Climbing Echo-Friendly: 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42870],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163917,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163916\/revisions\/163917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}