{"id":372,"date":"2013-07-08T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2014-03-02T03:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:28:31","slug":"good-essays-by-luke-muehlhauser-no-longer-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/good-essays-by-luke-muehlhauser-no-longer-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Good essays by Luke Muehlhauser no longer available at lukeprog.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Luke Muehlhauser updated his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeprog.org\">website<\/a> at the end of 2011, many of his essays ceased to be available. I tried to persuade him to put them back online, but I didn&#8217;t succeed. Fortunately, the Internet Archive keeps cached versions of the old site, and the essays can still be accessed there. Here are links to the ones I found most useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080102131847\/http:\/\/www.lukeprog.com\/selfhelp\/eating_the_moon.html\">Conquer Rejection by Not Eating the Moon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080102131858\/http:\/\/www.lukeprog.com\/selfhelp\/speed_reading.html\">How to Speed Read<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080102131923\/http:\/\/www.lukeprog.com\/writing\/art_of_plain_talk.html\">The Art of Plain Talk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080102131937\/http:\/\/www.lukeprog.com\/writing\/how_to_write_for_the_web.html\">How to Write for the Web<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The old site also featured a section on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110820085531\/http:\/\/lukeprog.com\/selfhelp\/guru_ratings.html\">Self-help Guru Ratings<\/a>. Years ago, I recommended this list to a friend of mine, with the following comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I actually clicked on every single review to see which authors were rated positively (only Cudney, Dunnan, and Gilbaugh were, I believe). Maybe he errs on the side of harshness, but at least this criterion makes you quite confident that if a book managed to please him it probably has something good to offer. Elsewhere on his site, he also praises John T. Reed&#8217;s book <em>Succeeding<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Peter Hurford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/effective.altruists\/permalink\/534201626636199\/?comment_id=534254733297555&amp;offset=0&amp;total_comments=9\">points out<\/a> that &#8220;The Art of Plain Talk&#8221; was <a href=\"http:\/\/commonsenseatheism.com\/?p=15963\">reposted<\/a> to Common Sense Atheism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">Latest update: 2nd March, 2014<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Luke Muehlhauser updated his website at the end of 2011, many of his essays ceased to be available. I tried to persuade him to put them back online, but I didn&#8217;t succeed. Fortunately, the Internet Archive keeps cached versions of the old site, and the essays can still be accessed there. Here are links [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}