When your nemesis is one click away...
I didn't know about snap.com, but in the few days since I discovered it, I keep liking its search capabilities... and today there's one extra thing that I like about snap.com. It yielded a case on how on today's internet, your Nemesis might be way closer than what you think, next to the praise and all the carefully-prepared positioning statements.
When searching on snap.com for "kiyosaki", the first link it provides (unlike Google, where it is the 2nd in the list) is John T Reed's analysis of Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" best seller book.
The story is somewhat longer, but let's start by acknowledging that reading Kiyosaki's book did change the way I manage my performance finance.. it made me think about many ways in which I was probably wasting money, instead of making it produce more money. However, there was this bitter taste in the mood that I got when reading Kiyosaki's book, beyond just making me feel stupid.. and I couldn't understand what it was (something was fishy.. but couldn't tell what at the time).
Enter John T. Reed. He does go as far as qualifying Kiyosaki of ".. a liar and a charlatan". Several potential buyers of Kiyosaki products thank Reed on his web site by his "Analysis of Rich Dad, Poor Dad", a gold nugget that pops up near the top of google searches on kiyosaki, a great counter-balance to Kiyosaki's claims. And he became himself a source about kiyosaki that has very high credibility, and brutal reputation. The former can come by simply not being kiyosaki.. but the second was earned much more skillfully.
The Easy Bay express ran recently an article on Reed an his ongoing argument (including legal actions) against Russ Whitney (yet another self-claimed real estate guru). Reed is a sixty-year old Army lieutenant who has wrote himself 26 books, and makes a living off his real estate books, and is not afraid of calling BS whenever he finds it... and nowadays no personal finance guru on his/her right mind would be dumb enough to probe him on that.
Back to my experience with Kiyosaki: despite all that I concede my [financial] life was changed by this book, i DO NOT RECOMMEND IT as a stand-alone source of financial wisdom. It dangerously depicts wealth-building as an easy, almost instantaneous task. At a minimum, "The millionaire Next Door" should be read next to it (it addition to Reed's analysis, which is a classic).
But back to the Nemesis next door, after searching on snap.com for Halliburton, Taco Bell and Intel, the first five results on each search have a link to either a corruption cases tracker, and sites of former employees alledging discriminatory practices.
The other site of the argument on ethical debates seems to be coming closer and closer to the spotlight built by top brands themselves.. and somehow snap.com seems to be favoring that better than google.
When searching on snap.com for "kiyosaki", the first link it provides (unlike Google, where it is the 2nd in the list) is John T Reed's analysis of Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" best seller book.
The story is somewhat longer, but let's start by acknowledging that reading Kiyosaki's book did change the way I manage my performance finance.. it made me think about many ways in which I was probably wasting money, instead of making it produce more money. However, there was this bitter taste in the mood that I got when reading Kiyosaki's book, beyond just making me feel stupid.. and I couldn't understand what it was (something was fishy.. but couldn't tell what at the time).
Enter John T. Reed. He does go as far as qualifying Kiyosaki of ".. a liar and a charlatan". Several potential buyers of Kiyosaki products thank Reed on his web site by his "Analysis of Rich Dad, Poor Dad", a gold nugget that pops up near the top of google searches on kiyosaki, a great counter-balance to Kiyosaki's claims. And he became himself a source about kiyosaki that has very high credibility, and brutal reputation. The former can come by simply not being kiyosaki.. but the second was earned much more skillfully.
The Easy Bay express ran recently an article on Reed an his ongoing argument (including legal actions) against Russ Whitney (yet another self-claimed real estate guru). Reed is a sixty-year old Army lieutenant who has wrote himself 26 books, and makes a living off his real estate books, and is not afraid of calling BS whenever he finds it... and nowadays no personal finance guru on his/her right mind would be dumb enough to probe him on that.
Back to my experience with Kiyosaki: despite all that I concede my [financial] life was changed by this book, i DO NOT RECOMMEND IT as a stand-alone source of financial wisdom. It dangerously depicts wealth-building as an easy, almost instantaneous task. At a minimum, "The millionaire Next Door" should be read next to it (it addition to Reed's analysis, which is a classic).
But back to the Nemesis next door, after searching on snap.com for Halliburton, Taco Bell and Intel, the first five results on each search have a link to either a corruption cases tracker, and sites of former employees alledging discriminatory practices.
The other site of the argument on ethical debates seems to be coming closer and closer to the spotlight built by top brands themselves.. and somehow snap.com seems to be favoring that better than google.
posted by dave at 4:08 PM
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