I published a technical book a few years (going on a decade) ago. I put a lot of work into it, and everybody who has read it has had good things to say about i

I published a technical book a few years (going on a decade) ago. I put a lot of work into it, and everybody who has read it has had good things to say about it - at least, it has a couple dozen five-star reviews on Amazon. Now, to be clear - I enjoyed writing it, I'm glad I wrote it, I hope to write another one, and I learned a lot through the process. However, I can't think of anything I've ever done in my career that's been _less_ consequential, career-wise, than publishing a book, even a well-reviewed book. I've never been invited to speak anywhere (although in fairness I haven't put any effort into trying) and although it's on the first couple of lines on my resume, the only time it's ever come up in a job interview was this last year when somebody said, "you published a book about computer security a while ago? Cool, can you do anything besides computer security? Because we're not looking for that."