Leo, at zenhabits.net has written a great post about productivity bloggers and, as he put it, their “Dirty Little Secrets”.  If you read it, you will see a blogger just trying to be open and honest with his readers while keeping them informed.  As a productivity type blogger myself, I was interested to read his point of view on the subject.  I found the post to be very accurate and enjoyed reading it.  The point that is made, in a nutshell, is the fact that most productivity bloggers are just people like you and me.  That they are just willing to dig up the information and present it to the reader.  But they themselves often don’t even fallow their own advise.  The comment I made in the post was that this could be said for almost any authority/teaching position.  Think about the doctor who smokes.  Doesn’t he preach good health and yet knowingly do the opposite?  This doesn’t make him any less right, but I would say it makes him less effective as an authority on the subject. Read more »