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Great books outlast the author. Nobody is going to put up a Wikipedia page saying how much money I had in my bank account when I died. Not that you should nece
by nonameiguess 5y ago
Great books outlast the author. Nobody is going to put up a Wikipedia page saying how much money I had in my bank account when I died.
Not that you should necessarily care how you get remembered as you're dead anyway, but I think it's worth it to share knowledge and give to the community if you think you have a contribution worth making. I'm certainly glad other past giants wrote instructional material even if it didn't make them rich.
- philipswood 5y agoTrue, super valid point but a technical programming book would not be a great way to be remembered after you died. The technology/library/stack/language you're writing about will probably die before you do or otherwise mutate beyond your book being useful. I doubt that I would see "Here lies Fred, he wrote the greatest book on Fortran ever written" on a tombstone. Or "Justine, her book on JQuery changed the world" in an obituary. For a "heritage" book the topic would need to be longer lasting.