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Yes, you have a good memory. :-) I'm hoping to save students and professionals a lot of time/money by creating these primers, then showing how people can creat
by jph 3y ago
Yes, you have a good memory. :-)
I'm hoping to save students and professionals a lot of time/money by creating these primers, then showing how people can create their own primers for their schools and workplaces.
Yes 100% you're right that unless you are already an expert and could have already written the book anyway, it's difficult. I've worked on these topics for years, and written about them, and taught them to many companies, so I know many of the topics well and have used many of them in practice.
The reason you're seeing these primers now on HN is because I'm working with a company that's investing a lot in team training, and the company has plenty of books on the topics, but it turns out that teammates are never reading the books because they're too long and too full of opaque terminology. The company and its partners are prioritizing startup entrepreneurship, UI/UX design, and project management.
As I experimented with ChatGPT on these topics, what I found is the ChatGPT output is close enough to my own business-oriented writing that it makes good sense to use ChatGPT first then edit it. Currently, each primer is taking about a month of wall time because I have so many of the topics already, and all I need to do is research for thoroughness, generate via AI, edit for size/form/style/etc., test with readers, iterate a few times, wrangle with pandoc, publish on gumroad, and so forth.
If you have advice, I would love to hear it, and talk with you. My direct email is joel@joelparkerhenderson.com.