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Here is my very obsolete "self help guru ratings" page, and an (old) incomplete list of self-help books I've read or skim-read.
I didn't see a list of "good" gurus, so I checked all the individual reviews looking for them. I saw only three:
What sort of developments have rendered it obsolete?
I learned a lot more about scientific self-help, and about specific topics like personal finance.
Every guru I clicked on (the ones I have heard of) had a "bad" rating.
/reads a few ratings
Looks like they are functioning as designed.
Most of them are rated "bad": the only "good" ratings I recall are Cudney, Dunman, and Gilbaugh. There's a somewhat higher number of "meh" ratings, but still a minority.
I'm perfectly willing to believe this given my own exposure to the self-help field, though. It really is mostly terrible.
The links aren't working.
Interesting; LW seems to break Wayback machine links. Anyway, I've now replaced them with is.gd links.
LW markup seems to screw up the link (you have to copy the whole thing, not the latest autolinked part):
https://web.archive.org/web/20110820085531/http://lukeprog.com/selfhelp/guru_ratings.html
Thank you.