Five Things: October 31, 2024
"Nothing good in tech lasts forever." Five Things for October 31, 2024
"Nothing good in tech lasts forever." Five Things for October 31, 2024
"Here I am." Five Things for May 23, 2024
"The road we took here is washed out." Five Things for April 25, 2024
"One of the few book-related things I’d save in a fire." Five Things: January 4, 2024.
It's an unfortunate truth about books that it's never simply been about being a good writer, but as literal thousands of new books are published every month, marketability is arguably more important — and harder to define — than it's ever been.
I don't usually buy into "blame the user" for most problems, but our collective addiction to vanity metrics ruined everything, and even those who didn't buy into them have suffered the consequences. The problem exists between keyboard and chair.
"I'd pay good money to hear the whisper networks' take on that." Five things for November 30, 2023.