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I've always wanted to build a site that does a tl;dr of advice books, since it always feels like a few simple things plus a boatload of stories and blah blah et
by joshu 17y ago
I've always wanted to build a site that does a tl;dr of advice books, since it always feels like a few simple things plus a boatload of stories and blah blah etc.
- davidw 17y agoIf you want a piece of http://www.squeezedbooks.com http://www.squeezedbooks.com , you're welcome to it. I'd love to hear your ideas about making it better. Phillip Greenspun puts it rather nicely on a review of "Crossing the Chasm": "This book illustrates a fault in the publishing industry. If you have a 50-page idea it is too long for a magazine. But it is too short for a book. So if you wanted to get it distributed before the Web came along, you had to drop in words until you reached 200 pages."
- vl 17y agoIronically, I feel that Getting Things Done (of all things :) needs this treatment more than many other books. I think GTD ideas would be much better digestible in form of concise 30-50 page article as opposed to the tedious and inflated read the actual book is.
- scorpioxy 17y agoBut that takes the fun out of reading the books. Plus, the advice in the Carnegie book are well known. As in, they're pretty obvious. But i think the way he tells the story to emphasize his point is what makes the book such a classic. I too resisted reading it for a long time because of the silly title and because I don't like reading "advice" books. But i broke down a few years ago and actually read it and it was a good read.