He is also a Professor at Georgetown and teaching graduate level theory of computation and distributed computing:

http://cs.georgetown.edu/~cnewport/index.html

So the opportunity is there to take his course and practice his message.

In that case, perhaps there is an intelligence bias that he is not acknowledging. Seems to me that if someone is naturally intelligent (re: genetics), they would be much more successful with this strategy than someone who isn't.

Citation of a CS PhD from MIT does not constitute proof that he could earn a 4.0 in Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science at CMU studying only an hour a week.

no need to take it personally

seems like he's done ok grade wise in life, whether he could or couldn't get an A in some supertough class at CMU,

don't like his methods, don't use them

give him a little credit for accumlating and sharing alot of different strategies to do well in some pretty tough academic settings

> no need to take it personal

This sort of passive-aggression has no place in polite discourse.