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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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.)

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.

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Thank you! That might be an interesting post. I went through the whole process of pitching etc. It was interesting.

Excited! Already pre-ordered. 

If you can find time for a blog post about it, I'd be curious about the general process of getting published. I imagine others would be as well.

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Very excited for this read. Your work has been big in my learning of the space. 

Thanks for putting in this much work!

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Just pre-ordered. In the fiction world, I remember that pre-orders carry significantly more weight that post launch sales. So hopefully it’s helpful!

Congrats on the milestone!

Looking forward to seeing what onchain tie-ins you have planned for the book. 😉

Congrats!

Do you think there’s value in doing something similar to what @balajis.eth did with The Network State and having a “living” version online separate from print?

bro i cannot WAIT

what do i have to do to get an early copy?

Congratulations! Pre-ordered. Very much eager to read it 👏

Any sneak peeks coming? 

btw I just added “why decentralization matters” to my Blockchain Applications course as a foundational reading!

Congrats, Chris! It’s been on preorder for some time. 

Would be cool to do some sort of digital commemoration. Maybe digital signatures via erc6551 or just a launch day NFT. 

Can’t wait to read it!