Conversely, what they're writing in this article is nothing special and the website as a whole is bait. Yes, this advice is exactly what some people need to hear now, today...so what? There is an endless supply of self-help advice on the net, just like there are shelves full of it at the bookstore.
> what they're writing in this article is nothing special
That is both a matter of opinion as well as an accurate observation for 99.99% of all content on the Internet. I think if you read the post (and the author's other ones) looking for answers, you will likely be disappointed. But if you read it looking for questions, it's not terrible.
It's not that the post itself is particularly bad, it's just generic. My point is that generic good advice is filler material that you can get anywhere, and there's no particular need to go rummaging through a landfill for it. In some cases, it's deployed to attract people to the landfill and expose them to more 'edgy' opinions.
The idea that we shouldn't look at things in context, but evaluate every claim in isolation, is a misapplication of academic standards to a decidedly non-academic attention marketplace full of perverse incentives. It leverages FOMO, the fear of missing out on a piece of useful or insightful information.
