Hey Michael,

I appreciate the honest and thorough response.

When I chose the term “secret” for the title, I did so deliberately and honestly. The idea that you can make your mornings far easier, and therefore more productive, by preparing for them the night before may seem obvious to some. But there are many people for whom this isn’t obvious at all and for whom it looks like a secret. By using the term secret, I was trying to empathize with the emotional position many people feel when they see people doing impressive things—it seems too good to be true.

But the point of the article was to show that there isn’t anything magical about being more productive in the early morning. But there are straightforward strategies that are non-obivous, seemingly hidden and secret, that anyone can benefit from with a bit of light-shedding.

I think you’re right that we need to be careful of click-bait headlines and dishonesty, but the content of my article—it seems to me—is actually quite substantial and useful, even without the clarifications in this newer piece.

— Nick