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Random Friday Post: 21 August 2009

So it’s Friday again, at least here. Just to keep myself up to snuff I’m trying to make myself update on every Friday even if there’s nothing I really feel like talking about.

What’s interesting this week:

Skyler Tanner wrote up a review of Maximum Muscle on his blog. It’s nice to see a positive review on it, since to be completely honest I was (and still am) worried that the subject matter would be off-putting to a lot of my target audience.

I’m standing by my decision to release it as a CC ebook, however. I do find it interesting at the amount of – not quite backlash, but “WTF” and crypto-anger that I’ve seen in response to that decision, as if I almost did something wrong by stepping outside the bounds like that. Whatever. I’ve made it clear from day one that I’m not in this to hustle for cash.

Alan Aragon wrote up a brilliant rebuttal to some recent T-Marketing (TM) shenanigans over on the Unapologetic Hustling site, which is a guest blog on Lyle’s Body Recomposition blog.

I’ve been putting up some spreadsheets on the forum. So far these are still in a preliminary testing phase, as I want to spend a little time with them before really endorsing them, but what I’m trying to do here is create some templates based on Prilepin’s Table as a framework, while incorporating some of the strategies that Mike Tuchscherer outlines in his Reactive Training System.

I’ve been doing some research into the Dunning-Kruger Effect for reasons that might be somewhat obvious. There’s a good and relatively recent review available for free on Pubmed. This is something deserving of a longer article in its own right, as it obviously ties in to much of my theme regarding critical thinking and the lack thereof. It’s kinda nice to see “stupid people are stupid” quantified in science-terms, in any event.

Random Post: Friday 14 August 2009

So it’s Friday and I’m sitting here with not a lot to talk about, but I haven’t updated in awhile so I figured I might as well put something up. I’m usually not one on for the quick-update bullet-point type posts, but maybe they’re a good filler in the absence of anything long and boring to talk about.

Firstly, it’s been a little over a month since I put Maximum Muscle up on the P2P nets and let the whole world have at it. Say what you want about my motives; anybody that wants a copy can get one, and that was my number one goal.

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