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I also wrote a book with O'Reilly and have collaborated on several more with other publishers and indies. I have to say working with the folks at O'Reilly was my best publishing experience by far. Even if I didn't get an animal cover. Not that I'm complaining... but you know, maybe a bat or a weasel or something would have been nice, just sayin'.
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20, 50, and 100 years too seem like a reasonable point of comparison. One simple approach is hand people old objective tests for subjects like math under the original rules. If people where simply becoming more competent in all areas then average scores should be higher today, but that’s not what happens. Measuring complexity more specifically is probably easiest done by using equivalent jobs and compare how long eac…
Maths is, like literacy, a fundamental skill, not a specialty.
Go back 50 years and people may have been studying geometry but they covered significantly different areas.
I also wrote a book with O'Reilly and have collaborated on several more with other publishers and indies. I have to say working with the folks at O'Reilly was my best publishing experience by far. Even if I didn't get an animal cover. Not that I'm complaining... but you know, maybe a bat or a weasel or something would have been nice, just sayin'.
I have a total cheat for book writing: find a project where you can contribute a single chapter. It's an order of magnitude less work then writing a full book, and you get to add "author of a book on X" to your resume. It's pretty much the other end of the scale in terms of overall benefit from what Martin is describing here, but it's worth remembering that it could be a much less stressful and time consuming opportu…
Except that would be untrue. You would not be an “author of a book”, but an author of a chapter. Which is still a nice thing for the résumé. But if you overstate anything and are found out, that will be fatal poison, and a stain that could follow you forever.
I have spent probably thousands of hours writing random responses helping people on forums, just because its the thing that I do to procrastinate. For example, this year I wrote more than 4000 posts on https://users.rust-lang.org/ and 19000 messages on the help channels in a few Discord servers. I'm probably the world expert at spotting the mistake in small snippets of Rust code at this point. I honestly wish I was a…
Still feel like a ton of work?
I created my own blog as a "note to self" type work. I would write down anything I was working on so that I could reproduce it in the future. I now have hundreds of personal documents and hundreds of professional documents at work. They come in amazingly handy, to me, nearly every day.
I've now written a dozen very small books on subjects I care about. The books are just 20 pages or so and people seem to love them. An example is "Publish your eBook by Joel Dare" on Amazon. See also, Zines.
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Except that would be untrue. You would not be an “author of a book”, but an author of a chapter. Which is still a nice thing for the résumé. But if you overstate anything and are found out, that will be fatal poison, and a stain that could follow you forever.
Sure, you don't mislead people like that. "An author of X" is the language I use.
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Take the essence of the question asked, or the non-working sample code given, take your response on the forum post, verbatim, and post that on your blog. Your blog is a marketing vehicle, you aren't necessarily doing it to rank high in google or get lots of traffic for ads. You're doing it so you have a single source of content you can direct someone towards and also identify yourself as a source of knowledge and exp…
I'm definitely not putting things on my blog for google rankings or ads. Those sound like they would be really boring to spend my time on, and the ads are extra pointless because the government has put a cap on my income in exchange for being paid to be a student, and I'm already at this cap with my part-time software job. I will certainly try to see if I can repurpose some of my better responses to common questions…
I wrote two books this year, Beautiful Spark being the more popular of the two: https://leanpub.com/beautiful-spark My book writing experience was much different: * just took a few weeks of part time work, mainly just organizing blog posts * Leanpub pays much higher royalties (80%) Books are a great way to learn more about the topic and help others. It makes training and employee onboarding a lot easier. You can tell…
I have spent probably thousands of hours writing random responses helping people on forums, just because its the thing that I do to procrastinate. For example, this year I wrote more than 4000 posts on https://users.rust-lang.org/ and 19000 messages on the help channels in a few Discord servers. I'm probably the world expert at spotting the mistake in small snippets of Rust code at this point. I honestly wish I was a…
I have spent probably thousands of hours writing random responses helping people on forums, just because its the thing that I do to procrastinate. For example, this year I wrote more than 4000 posts on https://users.rust-lang.org/ and 19000 messages on the help channels in a few Discord servers. I'm probably the world expert at spotting the mistake in small snippets of Rust code at this point. I honestly wish I was a…
High priced consultants do this all the time. You should do it. You've written the material already.
