Submitted the book to the publisher today. I looked back and it was 10 months to the day I started writing it. Took significantly more time than I expected (calendar months but also hours per day). 

It was an interesting process. I learned a lot and it sharpened my thinking on the topic. Would recommend :)

Crypto/web3. Author of Read Write Own

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One observation: you can pick any sentence from the book and I can tell you where the sentence occurs and in most cases the history of the revisions to that sentence. Which is to say: it takes that many hours (1000+ I think?) to get a book to sufficient quality level. I (naively) didn’t expect that when I started.

Another observation: I naively thought I could anticipate most reactions/criticisms in the early drafts. I was lucky to have ~30 smart readers who gave detailed feedback and it was invaluable for improving the book in many ways I didn’t originally expect. (Looking back those early drafts look terrible to me now :)).

(This is a comment on how much time it takes- not my ability to remember.)