>... if the author really wishes to position himself as someone to take advice from...

>... the good ideas here are largely betrayed by the author's bad writing and overgeneralizing...

The author clearly doesn't want to be someone most people take advice from, and admitted that the piece wouldn't be well written, lack nuance, and largely were just things that worked for them, not anybody else. I don't know how one could possibly take this so seriously when they make it very clear up front:

>I'm not really qualified to give advice.

>Don't read this if you are seeking a nuanced perspective.

>These are simply the lies I tell myself to keep on living my life in good faith. I'm not saying this is the right way to do things. I'm just saying this is how I did things. I will do my best to color my advice with my own experiences, but I'm not going to pretend that the suffering and the privilege I've experienced is universal.