I like getting helpful tips that enable me to simplify my life. Ideally these tips are brief, pithy, and cheap. Fortunately, the internet has stepped in to meet this need. So I subscribe to a few blogs that (allegedly) feature information like this. Lately, however, I have been growing cynical (imagine that) of these blogs.

For example, today the unsuitably titled Zen Habits posted The List to Beat All Lists: Top 20 Productivity Lists to Rock Your Tasks (don’t click the link). Yeah. This helpful zen list contains links to 20 lists of “productivity” related topics like 10 Resources to Help Overcome Procrastination. How about avoid stupidly long lists?

The consolidated list makes for 406 “tips” plus a link to another post with 15 more. I can just imagine how much more productive I would have to be after spending an entire day reading the 421 helpful tips.

Guess who got removed from Google Reader today?