I spent the entire last week retyping and filing relevant passages from all of those books into my database. It ended up being 85K words.
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I had no idea I’ll have to type in an extra book’s length in words in the process of writing a book!
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(It’s funny how some of the passages I was retyping were about the lost art of retyping.)
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And now I’m using my keyboard to write keyboard automation scripts to help me file notes for my book about keyboards.pic.twitter.com/bSBAywr1ju
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Laying out my book’s table of contents for the first time and feeling like a troubled conspiracy theorist.pic.twitter.com/h5SC8YeebP
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Feel like the most complex puzzle. Sequencing just this – everything that happened between typewriters and PCs – will be a great challenge.pic.twitter.com/W8L3JDWj2A
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“We’re gonna need a bigger wall.” *aide leans in to whisper about housing situation in S.F.* “We’re gonna need smaller sticky notes.”pic.twitter.com/4GkIDNIiO3
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This is my book, laid out for the first time, in forty-seven chapters/themes.pic.twitter.com/l3Z7IO5q8u
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This feels petrifying (I’m basically looking at 47 blank pages instead of the usual one), but also I’m incredibly excited about it.
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I can see it all, now, for the first time ever. I see a chronological spine, interspersed with excursions in all sorts of fun directions.
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So many happy chronological accidents, too, for example the Eisenhower election in 1952 is just two years before first computer keyboard.
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(I know this means little when said this way, but that chapter will be *amazing*.)
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I’ve heard last week that it’s bad luck to talk about a book before finishing it – maybe I’m just not very superstitious.
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