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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To be honest, I think most of the best ideas I get that are truly new are in tweet-length forms, even when they are in books - which mostly provide scaffolding. (this might be more about my conceptual architecture than anything else though.)
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Woah, u'r surviving without even reading books? I'm impressed, my brain would di1

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I mean, I'd say it's more like mining or other modern extraction
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It's so much better than what we used to have and it'll enable significantly more advanced and impressive intellectual results, much the same way industrial extraction led to horrors and wonders throughout the 19th and 20th centuries
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"perform action for the sake of the action, not for the fruits"... ancient wisdom, bhagavad gita...
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write a romance novel, that will put you on the map :-)
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That's exactly what made me write my first book, Die humane Revolution. An idea in thread length, that I needed to explain in book length - more to me than to the (few) readers.
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