1/ I've written one book from scratch, one from an email list archive, one from a blog series. Making a book is always an act of archival.
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2/ A set of ideas is only ready for being archived into a book when it "settles" enough. It's a bit like geological quasi-equilibrium.
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3/ But I've learned that many bodies of ideas never settle enough to be "booked". They evolve or become obsolete before they stabilize.
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looking for a good plugin that does annotations etc in wordpress
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if you actually ever write a book you'll realize that's laughably untrue. 99.99% authors can't make serious living from books.
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You should take it a step further from books: Buzzfeed-style "Top Ten Things That Blew My Mind as a VC Philosopher-In-Residence."
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