I feel no one told it this way – from Gary Kildall hopping onto his plane, to a fateful conference where reporters mocked the mighty IBM.
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Also, tell me this right here is not some serious Pulitzer Prize stuff.pic.twitter.com/ySQu4tBiSu
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These two extremes I found the most exciting parts of writing so far, fun moments among hours that sometimes don’t feel like fun at all…
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…one is assembling a puzzle (book) made of puzzles (chapters) made of puzzles (sections) – while allowing the pieces to shape the whole…
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…and another one is, once in a while, writing a sentence that feels like it belongs in a book. And then realizing *I* wrote it.
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Like this one sentence, which perhaps makes little sense without context, but you have no idea how proud I am of these nine words.pic.twitter.com/oiNjqw2jL5
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The weirdest four books I encountered while researching my book.pic.twitter.com/3gWnaOGJRv
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I typeset and printed my book proposal as *an actual book*, and this was so much fun.pic.twitter.com/ArbQFl8UXm
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Even though I still have a lot to write, it’s incredibly rewarding to see it becoming real in this way. (Footnotes! Illustrations!)pic.twitter.com/NFoXZEYG9r
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I even cut my own font (based on one of
@djrrb’s excellent fonts) to depict the keys.pic.twitter.com/f2L3CTzml7
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Also, recreated this old style of showing keys in Sketch.pic.twitter.com/KePS8kbdun
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Printing one copy of a book is not so hard, and not really expensive, either. (I explored it last year here: https://medium.com/@mwichary/my-experiences-printing-a-small-batch-of-books-c04141b63dfe?source=linkShare-b55535a4ac78-1494626685 ….)
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Please keep your fingers crossed for the rest! (And mega thanks to
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