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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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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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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7/ People are asking if I'll be putting http://breakingsmart.com on Kindle. I might, but be aware that would be freeze-frame of live convo
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8/ I am in fact more interested in a reverse idea: rather than writing 2nd "dead" ed of my 1st book Tempo, "resurrect" it into a pre-book
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9/ Not sure where my experiment with "binge" formats can go, but key is, it's a living format that *can* go where books cannot.
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10/ With hindsight, Kindle:books::LinkedIn::resumes. Just as the "real" social network=Facebook and beyond, "real" ebooks=blogs and beyond.
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@eli_schiff 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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