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		blasdel on Jan 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Kill Yourself she cites psychological research -- except that it's the Gladwell/Surowiecki affirmative self-help for New Yorker readers kind of research. She is certainly nowhere near as bad as Scoble: only Winer can keep him company in the innermost circle of blog hell. I had totally erased that damn Head First Design Patterns book from my memory, maybe she does belong in an inner circle of hell...

ahoyhere on Jan 29, 2009 [–]

> * except that it's the Gladwell/Surowiecki affirmative self-help for New Yorker readers*

I'd like to see you back that statement up.

I subscribe to the cogsci, psych, creativity, metaphor and memory journals online. I know what stuff she cites.

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