In some ways it feels like I’ve already written most of the book I want to write on Twitter, and it’s just a matter of dumping out the shredder and assembling a picture. Reverse shredding of thoughts born pre-shredded.
It’s very annoying.
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Editor as a Service that helps with this, i would actually pay for that
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maybe if they took a cut, it could really unlock great books from twitter
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personally don’t understand the cultural capital allotted to published authors, when all we want is the tweets anyway. but if society cares and someone could make money doing the labor of transcoding from tweets to books, godspeed
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one of my consulting gigs kind of looks like this, Venkat style sparring + editing / writing coaching. but like Tiago says being a published author is virtually meaningless at this point
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With the explosive growth of podcasts seeking ever more obscure guests, “being interviewed” will soon carry no prestige. What will be the next previously exclusive thing to be bled dry by digital media?
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as says, the world is run by credulous technophobes who think book binding means legitimacy and tedX means hip with the youth
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The problem with books etc is that they’re easily faked as credibility signals. You could write a 250 page book that actually has an idea of that scale, or you could just fluff out what should be a twitter thread with filler. For too many dumb gatekeepers there’s no difference.
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well venkat and i both want to do books so what does that say about us lol
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In my case, my only book qua book, Tempo, had following external effects:
1. Non-trivial initial $ spike and ongoing passive income
2. Getting connected to Boydian crowd
3. A few *really* dedicated readers
4. A couple of interesting talks
5. Road-trip excuse (biggest value)
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