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Comment by MikeCapone | Hacker News Reader

I liked a lot of Steve's early stuff, but when he went all esoteric and pseudo-scientific (referencing his wife's "intuitive readings" and psychic stuff, etc) he totally lost me.

Maybe I'll have to re-read some of his early stuff someday...

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I was turned off by the self-help guruism but he has one article (theoretically about shareware, but widely applicable) which was extraordinarily helpful to me several years ago. One particular insight, that improvements are multiplicatively effective, essentially transformed the way I do business.

Sadly it has fallen off the Internets, but Google still has a cache.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YKYYOPx...

Here are his early awesome articles about shareware/indie game development: http://web.archive.org/web/20030207132433/www.dexterity.com/...

You can get all his old articles from Dexterity software on the wayback machine.

This is actually great news, because it means that stuff like that can be brought back and polished.

There was a phase when most of his articles started talking about his experiments with open marriages, giving out intimate details about the sexual and psychological effects.

I was an avid reader before that. Since I was never considering open marriages for myself, I just stopped reading when that phase hit.

I remember someone recommending Steve to me a few years ago, and I found most of his early writing very inspirational and grounded in reality.

However, at some point something changed in his writing. I started seeing some "glitches in the matrix" Steve was projecting and soon the esoteric articles overtook the normal, logical ones and I could bear to read no more.

Notice, that the main reason he is releasing copyrights is because he feels, we are all the same (that is you are Steve, I am Steve, we are all Steve...no joke) and he has created content by channelling some cosmic energy..

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2010/08/moving-beyond-copyr...

On one hand it could be it is a highly advanced form of pantheism, on the other hand it just sounds crazy to me.

Yeah I didn't like a lot of his more out there stuff but I just ignore it. He still has some excellent insights on productivity and has some new ways of thinking about common, tired problems that have helped me.

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