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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4/ If you decide that only book-worthy (attention equivalent of "sponge-worthy"?) ideas are worth reading/writing, you miss out on 90%
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5/ Some conclude if it isn't in a dead tree and by a dead author, it's noise. That's rationalization of lack of skill with living knowledge
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I see same thing with ideas for journal articles. The distinction for me is bwtn writing as exploration and writing as communication.
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I've heard even ideas for blog posts could become obsolete before you had time to sit down and write them up.
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