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Teri Mai — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:47:47 -0000

This is great great! It inspires me! I want to be all of them!
Teri
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weeksgo — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:41:04 -0000

I love the Real Zen ve Fruit Zen. Very creative post!

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Alaia Williams — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:43:02 -0000

Funny post. I have definitely run into a ton of Fake Zen Guys (and Girls) and waaaaaay to many Law of Attraction Megalomaniacs.

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Mark — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:53:26 -0000

I loved your take on the Fake Zen Guy. I have come across a few of them myself lately. Scary stuff. You can lose track of reality.

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Bob — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:44:46 -0000

You should write for Maxim, cause this reads like all of the superficial bullshit Maxim articles I get suckered into reading.

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Guthrie — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:56:02 -0000

Ha, fantastic. This reminds me of a lot of the Internets. I remember reading a "LifeHacker" site recently that had people obsessively cataloging their geek bags, and I had to stop looking at it, wash my hands, and go outside immediately.

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Sonia Simone — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:52:30 -0000

Ah ha ha, this made me laugh. Thank you for making me feel better about being Ms. Fucking Dinosaur Who Can't Twitter Without Firing Up Her 20-Lb. Laptop.

Oops, can I swear in your comments? Sorry. Anyway. Awesome, thank you.

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Rolf F. Katzenberger — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:27:41 -0000

Clay, what a massive fun read!

Now please give us a self-ironic post about *you* ;-)

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David Hearst — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:57:57 -0000

Got damn, who dun told you about the fake Samuel L. Jackson? Enjoyed the post Clay!

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Guest — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:09:15 -0000

@Tom: I have been patiently waiting (zen like) for your authoritative take on fake zen guy. It was worth the wait. Thank you.

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Tom Stine — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:22:44 -0000

Ah, come on, Clay, Fake Zen Guy a nut job? No, Fake Zen Guy is an opportunist. He's found a niche he can play in. He can Zen his business, Zen his house (Feng Shui is Chinese, but no matter), Zen his love life. It's all a strategy to get what most people want: M O R E!

However, all that Zen-stuff will get him someday. He will find himself forced to meditate and do yoga by his Zen girlfriend. He might actually find a moment of stillness, and the Fake Zen life will seem empty. The Universe always finds a way to get you, even Fake Zen Guy. :-)

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jason — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:55:48 -0000

These comments read like a lot of them were written by the same person. The post reads like a poorly done political campaign attack.

You've lost my interest.

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Duff McDuffee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:37:43 -0000

Oh boy, this is fun.

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Pat R — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:37:32 -0000

Good post Clay. I guess people are coming up with more ways all the time to connect and plug in -- only they aren't plugging into anything of much value just more noise and chatter. Well it goes like they say, "Different strokes for different folks".

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Barbara Swafford — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:20:42 -0000

The cordless headsets/Bluetooths drive me nuts. I keep thinking people are talking to themselves or to me.

#4 reminds me of being in line at the airport as the person in front of me unloads their backpack.

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J.D. Meier — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:54:35 -0000

Against Mr. Spaceman, I must be Mr. Flintstone -- I have yet to get a cellphone. Someday. Maybe.

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Columbine — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:57:44 -0000

Well done. #3 is cropping up everywhere, subsuming apparently sane people's lives - I suspect it's an economy-linked plague...

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Cylithria — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:39:52 -0000

Absolutely love it. Well done, well done!

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Torley — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:34:39 -0000

Clay, I appreciate how you're continuing to grab "productivity" by the balls and offer an attitude-laden, no-holds-barred approach to calling out the fakery and lame-ass "looks busy, does nothing" out there. Your humor is getting edgier (at least visibly), and in the wake of all these Zen Habits-copycat blogs cropping up which say the same basic things many times but fail to offer much new, I can relate to #5 AND AM CRACKING UP HERE!

Hilarious Lobot comparison image at the top.

Let me just say that whenever something's successful, be it a music style or lifestyle trend, unsavory parasites will try to cash in on it, and spotting these nutjobs and distinguishing them from the actual achievers is paramount. :)

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Patricia - Spiritual Journey O — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:31:28 -0000

Clay, I will ask what I did in my StumbleUpon comment, "Are these people afraid of the silence?" Without the silence, I would have no peace within or without. I have to spend time by myself, with myself, or I would go crazy, not to mention, I become bitchy to my husband when I am not getting my alone time. What is so frightening about spending time with yourself that these people have to stay plugged in all the time. Is that fear or what? Great article. It would be funny, if it weren't so true for some people.

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Eric — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:10:13 -0000

Where have you been all my life? Loved it, very clever and accurate.

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Laurie — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:25:29 -0000

Haha, this post was hilarious, Clay. I recognize all of these types for sure.

@ Maria: I am totally subscribing to the IKEA Hacker RSS feed! That site is amazing!

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Dianne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:28:49 -0000

I love this entry...but I have to ask you about this phrase:

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@Stephen Productivity in Cont — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:30:06 -0000

LOL. Great post. I love the categories!
You will need to take some notes next week and run a post on the FMB party.

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Guy at mildife — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:59:39 -0000

Love it, these nut jobs need to be exposed. I see the guys with their phones on their ears thinking they are in a Star Trek movie, they look daft, the fake zen and The Secret are both just follies but The Secret really worries me because they will drain a lot of vulnerable people of their money, it should be illegal to scam like that. It is so distasteful.

The life hack clones just need a bit of therapy :O)