Elharo, I’m interested in reading your sequence topics in inverse proportion to how usual it is to find them in the literature.
So I’d love to hear your thoughts on spouses, number of incomes and other topics with magnitudes ranging 7 to eight figures that no one talks about (to my knowledge).
I would not love that much read about compound interest, tax advantages etc…
So here is the interesting thing. While I agree with others that you should optimize for hard data and equations, I don’t think you should select for hard data and equations, because the topics were more hard data exist are exactly those in which your efforts would be unnecessary.
But then again, you’ll be shot with all the arrows people have been shooting me in many of my longer texts here, where I usually delve into territory where adjacent data exists, and make extrapolations from that data into unexplored territory.
As I see it you have 4 avenues:
1)Write about stuff where hard data already exists and be counterfactually irrelevant, have a lot of work, and be mildly praised.
2)Write about the areas where available content is not a lot, and be downshot by many who will claim you have no data to back your advice. On the other hand you will be counterfactually relevant and praised by a small majority.
3)Write all of it, and be downshot because of the non-backed parts, and downshot on the backed parts for re-writing what is already out there. Newcomers, and the small majority above will still like it, but hardcore LW won’t.
4)Be awesome, and be praised by your awesomeness.
If you evaluate 4 as out of the way, for whichever reason, I would go for 2, and be as far away from 3 as I can, because it is frustrating.
Also, about the book, I wouldn’t buy it even for $1.00 . Nowadays I’ll only buy a book if I know I want to mark it with a pen, read it outside after my cell runs out of bateries or if the author is one of my heroes.
We are drowning in an information ocean, and I am firmly convinced that for the same reason I don’t pay for alcohol because I know I drink so rarely that I can afford to drink only when somehow I’m being given drinks, I never (99%) need to pay for written knowledge again. Not because I don’t read, but because with a large certainty, everything I want to read has an equivalent (itself included) available online, instantly, and free.
Elharo, I’m interested in reading your sequence topics in inverse proportion to how usual it is to find them in the literature.
So I’d love to hear your thoughts on spouses, number of incomes and other topics with magnitudes ranging 7 to eight figures that no one talks about (to my knowledge).
I would not love that much read about compound interest, tax advantages etc…
So here is the interesting thing. While I agree with others that you should optimize for hard data and equations, I don’t think you should select for hard data and equations, because the topics were more hard data exist are exactly those in which your efforts would be unnecessary. But then again, you’ll be shot with all the arrows people have been shooting me in many of my longer texts here, where I usually delve into territory where adjacent data exists, and make extrapolations from that data into unexplored territory.
As I see it you have 4 avenues:
1)Write about stuff where hard data already exists and be counterfactually irrelevant, have a lot of work, and be mildly praised.
2)Write about the areas where available content is not a lot, and be downshot by many who will claim you have no data to back your advice. On the other hand you will be counterfactually relevant and praised by a small majority.
3)Write all of it, and be downshot because of the non-backed parts, and downshot on the backed parts for re-writing what is already out there. Newcomers, and the small majority above will still like it, but hardcore LW won’t.
4)Be awesome, and be praised by your awesomeness.
If you evaluate 4 as out of the way, for whichever reason, I would go for 2, and be as far away from 3 as I can, because it is frustrating.
Also, about the book, I wouldn’t buy it even for $1.00 . Nowadays I’ll only buy a book if I know I want to mark it with a pen, read it outside after my cell runs out of bateries or if the author is one of my heroes.
We are drowning in an information ocean, and I am firmly convinced that for the same reason I don’t pay for alcohol because I know I drink so rarely that I can afford to drink only when somehow I’m being given drinks, I never (99%) need to pay for written knowledge again. Not because I don’t read, but because with a large certainty, everything I want to read has an equivalent (itself included) available online, instantly, and free.