They Just Don’t Get It, and Maybe They Never Will

Productivity gurus sell the biggest distractions.

Jessica Wildfire
5 min readNov 4, 2021

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Every guru gets their fifteen minutes.

Nobody talks about Gary Vaynerchuk or Rachel Hollis anymore. Even Marie Kondo has faded. The new “I’m not your guru” is Ali Abdaal, a Cambridge doctor who’s made millions telling us stuff like this:

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Jessica Wildfire

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