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Feeling cute and might delete, but if you want to read my short book, How to Write a Book, you can get it free over here. dl.bookfunnel.com/g0n6b6i63r
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.@tferrissβs article makes me feel like I'm not crazy.
- Book sales down 80% over past four years.
- Self-help down 26% YOY. Big titles could be down 60% this year.
- ChatGPT Claude customizing information self-help packages.
- Attention is being swallowed by reels and going viral doesnβt do shit.
That prescriptive non-fiction is over does bode well for the kind of narrative, concepts baked-in non-fiction I like to read and aspire to write.
My own sales have been down sharply but I'll be leaning into specific knowledge, dense but fun to read, and a bit weird.
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Quitting a project is a gift to your future self. You can't unwrap it until you make the space for what's inside to grow.
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In some version of the future we spend most of our time doing housework and growing vegetables (AI-assisted). Life should consist of movement and maybe corporate mental work is the drudgery we should be eager to escape.
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What was that grinding noise on the Windows β95 machine in the family computer room?
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I get cruel punishments, but whatβs wrong with unusual? Law enforcement is a tough job, maybe that would make it more fun and creative.
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Jun 14
If there was one monkey who grew nearly endless bananas, and tasked other monkeys with helping in exchange for a cut of the bananas, we would think that was one evolved monkey.
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βWhenever anybody tells me they want to write a book in order to help other people, I always think, Oh, please donβt. Please donβt try to help me.β βLiz Gilbert
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Jun 12
Given the reactions to this video Iβm at least 10% sure my next book will be called If You Donβt Read Books Fuck You.
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Jun 12
My strategy is lock myself in a room for 15 years and try through force of will to transform myself into a writer with the ability to bewitch anyone within 5 words.
Donβt steal my idea!
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The more comfortable you feel sharing your strategy openly, the stronger it likely is. If you feel worried about competitors knowing your strategy, it's probably weak.
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Jun 11
Needing some motivation on this last mile so time to set up a new reward.
When I finish editing my manuscript, I'll treat myself to a pair of these organic cotton lounge pants from Rawganique.
I feel my energy surging already!
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Jun 11
I very often forget that all of my screens are black-and-white. Everyone should try this.
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Jun 10
It seems the more nooks and tributaries of our lives media seeps into the less people are able to distinguish art from real life. Art is not and should not be a representation of a moral ideal. It's a messy expression of our inner worlds, our unconscious desires and urges, through cast shadows and metaphors that can to an overly-literal conscious mind appear wrong or repulsive. To suppress this is a crime against id, a vote for collective insanity.
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There are choices you are making, with no idea youβre making them. Each day youβre saying no to thousands of versions of life that never crossed your mind, in lieu of the status quo. If there are circumstances you can no longer bear, they are a gift, a nudge for you to wake up and actively make a selection.
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Jun 10
How this next book does is going to be quite the test of my biggest bet ever. One data point on value of:
- 5 more years writing experience
- Zettelkasten
- Research trip to Italy
- Move to secluded cabin
- Meditation 1 hour/day for a year
- Regular somatic release
- Leveraging AI for (hopefully) improved writing/research
- Reading-only media consumption
- All screens black-and-white
- Typewriter drafting
- 6 years on one book
If this doesn't work, that's a W for the write like a retard and let 'er rip approach.
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A mathematical paradox I can't wrap my head around is the St. Petersburg paradox.
It works like this: Imagine someone offers to flip a coin and pay you $1 for every time it comes up heads.
But as soon as it comes up tails, the game is over.
How much can you win? How much are you willing to pay to play?...
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Apparently few people would pay even $20 to play this game.
After all, the chances of flipping heads even 21 times in a row are like 1 in 2 million.
The paradox is that the Expected Value of the game is infinite. It's possible to keep flipping heads forever, so you *should* be willing to pay any amount to play this game.
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"Audience capture" means the wrong thing. I guess it means the creator changes to meet the preferences of their audience. What it should mean is the audience keeps consuming the first 1 or 2 major creators they come across, never seeking anything better.
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One of the crazy things about telling stories in 2026 is no matter who you mention as an example, someone voices their dissent.
We're not talking Bill Cosby here. Henry Ford, Jerry Seinfeld, Annie Duke, Rick Rubin, Elon Musk, J. K. Rowling.
It's at such a ridiculous proportion I honestly don't give a fuck anymore. Going to start quoting Genghis Khan.
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Nothing could have convinced me how much writing it takes to write a book youβre proud of. When youβre not a writer, you think, Wow 250 pages is a lot. Then you write a book and realize 250 is condensed from 2,500.
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