Could a paperback introduction to Meaningness reach tens of thousands of readers?
I have no idea; if anyone with expertise in commercial publishing has opinions, I’d love to hear!
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Seems I am in the minority here...but would rather have you spend your time publishing the content in the format you envisioned rather than changing gears now and publishing a book. Maybe I am being selfish here :) And a totally different idea here but...
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...have you considered just making it into a video lecture series or something? (Like Vervaeke's recent series?) It always seemed to me that that's easier than writing a text.
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Rule of thumb apparently is 100 hours prep per hour of video. Vervake’s series is great (and is 100 hours). He’s been classroom-teaching the material for years so the prep time is already amortized…
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Welp, looks like I have grossly underestimated the effort involved.
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100 is probably an upper bound! Depending on how good you want to make it, 10 might be minimal? I can blather off-the-cuff about some topics, but I’m likely to get details wrong, and they are mostly not the topics anyone would want to hear about!https://meaningness.com/metablog/buddhism-cognitivism-podcast …
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Hmm, interesting. I think you summed up the trade-off pretty well in that post: precision/accuracy v/s the ability to cover material. Somehow I get the sense that you're not entirely comfortable with making that trade-off (not a criticism by any means!)
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But I've come to believe over the past year that audio-visual is a superior means of instruction compared to text although now that I think about it; all the ex. I had in mind (Vervaeke, Dreyfus, Lieberman etc.) are all professors who've had a lot of time to work on them...
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Podcasts are great too, but probably confounded by the fact that a good host plays a huge role--and so perhaps that doesn't translate over well to individual lectures. So I've revised my intuition about the difficulty of producing a lecture series :)
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I felt I wasn't clear enough but just wanted to say that I still strongly feel that a lecture series would be much better than writing a book despite the drawbacks and your ability/interest in switching to a new format. Sorry for the spam--I'll lay off the caffeine lol
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Ideally, I'd like to try many things! In reality, I mostly don't have time for even one thing
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