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Could he be more carbon neutral in releasing a book, than making it ebook-only, which he seems to have done here?
Look at his Twitter, he owns cars, boats, a multi-storey house on the Gold Coast without any solar panels
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#22He really is full of himself, isn't he?
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I remember having a conversation with him on Twitter once, and his comments were quite offensive. Very general, sweeping opinions about British people (I'm British/Australian.) Mostly made him self look like a boob, but he's not the kind of person to self-reflect and recognise that.
I like his blog's content - he's clearly smart - but you're right: he actually contributes so little, but has a huge degree of prestige.
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#23Is one of the review blurbs "I only read the intro and the epilogue written by other people, but those were great"? I guess that is the only new content, but that's a strange choice to publish in promotion of your book.
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#24He really is full of himself, isn't he?
…and yet the best selling genre year in and year out in the US is self-help. “Losers whine about giving their best, winners go home and %#$& the Prom Queen.” - The Rock
Also it was said to a guy whose wife/fiance was the prom queen.
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#25He really is full of himself, isn't he?
I would argue that he has undoubtedly had the greatest impact on educating end-users on the dangers of password reuse.
From what I have seen of his interactions he seems like an incredibly intelligent and humble guy.
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#26As soon as I saw Troy's post about this in my news feed, I thought I'd buy it immediately, but $39 is a lot for this sort of thing. I've bought similar books from tech bloggers and they've been closer to $15.
His story sounds interesting, but not $39 interesting.
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Look at his Twitter, he owns cars, boats, a multi-storey house on the Gold Coast without any solar panels
He gloats a lot on Twitter about this stuff which is why I unfollowed. It went from great content to soso content and lots of gloating.
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…and yet the best selling genre year in and year out in the US is self-help. “Losers whine about giving their best, winners go home and %#$& the Prom Queen.” - The Rock
That quote makes me feel bad for the Prom Queen. Congrats, you're a trophy with a tiara.
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#30Oh it’s an ebook only? Okay.
Don’t get me wrong, proofreading, formatting and structuring is work and not the fun kind of work, but that’s a hard sell.
For 19$ … yeah, maybe.