Viewing profile — peterarmstrong

"That single gram of silica gel could have an internal surface area of eight hundred square meters—the size of almost two basketball courts." This reads like something from The Thr…

What, hackathons require admission applications these days? Holy crap I'm getting old...

Write an in-progress book about some niche = lead magnet for this type of work :) (disclosure: founder of Leanpub)

Yeah, I was going to write the same thing.

When you realize it was supposed to be a graphic novel, that makes the over-the-top scenes make so much more sense. It's a comic book without the comics. (I also think it's great, …

Also, Asakusa Kid (biopic of him) is a really good movie, and Hana-bi is a great movie as well.

phalates

No. You discuss it with your manager, and you do it at the appropriate time. Having both created, refactored and deleted lots of technical debt over the past 25 years, trust me: yo…

Maybe the young men measured have low enough testosterone ranges that the high/low cycles have less effect, but the more likely explanation is that the methodology of this study is…

I can recognize my wife and son perfectly fine, I just can't make pictures of them in my mind. Longer version: https://leanpub.com/aphantasia/read

Thank you from Leanpub!

What this leads to is the joke of guidelines like in Victoria, Canada, where the city basically is trying to mandate that buildings look "interesting", where interesting is defined…

Hey, in Canada the newest model will be! Next year we'll have, what, four F-35s? We'd almost be better off making a bunch of that bronze armour and the cool hats...

Friendly note: losing, not loosing :)

The cycle also goes hand-in-hand with languages and frameworks. I use VSCode for Ruby on Rails editing, but I don't need to. With TypeScript, however, it's a huge win -- just as ID…

We treat all author support issues to hello@leanpub.com as confidential, of course. For author support issues which are fine to discuss in public, you can see our author forum at h…

Agreed! We don't do anything to help with that part of the process: you need to use that page either way :)

Regardless of what type of book your wife is writing, if she uses Leanpub she needs to do the upload to KDP herself: Leanpub doesn't currently do anything here. There are other com…

Thanks :) Ironically, I've been talking about the relationship between lean publishing and serial fiction for a long time (for example, this video from a conference talk I did in 2…

One thing to consider is royalty rate. If you sell 5000 copies for $20 and earn a dollar per copy, you've earned $5,000. (This math is based on 10% royalties on the publisher's por…

Sounds good re. #2. Re, #1, we don't offer anything in terms of an interactive environment at the moment, and we probably won't do so for a long time. That seems like a full startu…

Hi Sundeep, [Leanpub co-founder here.] Thanks for the kind words about Leanpub, and for choosing Leanpub as one of your publishing platforms! We're fond of our pricing sliders and …

At Leanpub, authors keep 80% of the title's price. We've paid over $7.5M in royalties to authors, and we're alive and well :) Write in Markdown, click a button, get a book (PDF, EP…

Obligatory link, via pmarca archive: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/