The last 10y of my posts on ribbonfarm have turned into a weird memory blackhole since I haven’t properly anthologized the archives from that period except for one volume (crash early, crash often). Need to do this if only as a memory aid.
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I think there’s 2-3 more volumes worth, not counting a few of the blogchains which could be directly ebookified (Mediocratopia is the big one)
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Finally working on bookifying art of gig with
Was energized by the project a year ago, then got vaguely de-energized from all packaged publishing, now back to slightly energized
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I’ve done 10 volumes (1 paper, 9 ebook only) and I think I‘ve been feeling burned out by my current model of low-cost ebook-only half-assery and was at a fork of “level up or stop doing this”
It’s good steady passive income, but after the first few times, it turned into a grind
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The 2 level-up vectors were: more polished production including print OR Web3ification with a rich static site and NFTs
With the crash, and early stage limitations of the tech, the second option is out for a while, so back to better ebooks and print
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Here’s a thread I did a while back on the story so far of ribbonfarm book publishing division
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Just did an analysis of 10 years of half-assed self-publishing. Executive summary:
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