The interesting question is, why do we still read these things? We already kind of know what they are going to say, and we already have well informed and stable opinions about them. I think personally deep down maybe I'm hoping they're going to convince me that what I say does actually matter to someone else... I'm yet to be convinced ;-)
For me, I've become absolutely sick of these types of self-help articles. But once in a while, I'll read one in the hope that it'll actually teach me something new and make me re-consider how I viewed something. Usually that doesn't happen. The ones that do are pretty technical, a recent example is the 'What does code readability mean?' article hanging around on the HN front page right now.
I love the ones that tell you the opposite. How To Do Nothing is my favourite example. I also like those that remind us to build silly things that don't matter.
It's good to be reminded that maybe there is more to life than being really really really ridiculously productive.
