To be fair, Pavlina started as a mid-level Indie game developer and moved into the self-help world. I think the first buzz he received was on thirty day trials and (in particular) polyphasic sleep.

He's always been a bit unorthodox, but he wrote a book that I found to have quite a bit of value, and was quite a bit more challenging in its exercises than the standard self-help book.

I still read him, but more for the occasional nuggets now - for where I am in life, I don't receive much value from his current set of posts because it isn't where I am right now in life. That's okay.

As for the passive income bit, I'm hoping the series gets better, but I fear it is going to be a repackaging of what he's said before.

Proof by contradiction: You'll never read the blogs of people who failed to make a passive income by having a blog about making a passive income by having a blog about passive income, because you reading such a failed blog would imply that blog had a readership and would therefore make money off advertising so it wouldn't be a failed blog. QED.

It's sort of the Anthropic principle: you could only notice that if such blogs existed, and such blogs could only exist if you read them, so you've answered your own question.

I've always wondered this. Most of the time, the readers of a blog about passive income are people that want to make passive income, and likely have their own blog about how they also make passive income. It's like a snake eating its own tail.

Same way "How to make money" books make money for just the author.

Ha, similar to selling instructions about how to make money fast is how to make money fast.