Where did I read that you can't trust intellectual production techniques unless you hear from people who are using them themselves to produce intellectually, search Scrapbox and let me know.
The idea that "you can't trust anything about intellectual production techniques unless you hear from people who are using them to produce intellectually" is stated in the following Scrapbox page.
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