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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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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6/ Ironically, same people who idolize books over blogs prize "tacit knowledge" and "oral culture" by which they seem to mean campfire chats
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as soon as you drive the book off the lot, the ideas are old. Fill up on fresh, free range, feral ideas.
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also, 90+ % of books have at most blogpost-worth amount of ideas and the rest is fluff + anecdotal persuation layer
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