alt Hacker News> I'm not sure exactly what you meant by "new-age self-help" books
They're using it as a pejorative, so it's a blanket term meaning "books with ideas I don't understand and therefore dislike".
> I'm not sure exactly what you meant by "new-age self-help" books
They're using it as a pejorative, so it's a blanket term meaning "books with ideas I don't understand and therefore dislike".
I agree that many of the books they're likely talking about are bad, but at least be correct about what makes them bad!