Totally agree. When he started saying "just write books and readers will come" I had to think about https://xkcd.com/1827/ https://xkcd.com/1827/ Not to say th

Totally agree. When he started saying "just write books and readers will come" I had to think about https://xkcd.com/1827/ https://xkcd.com/1827/ Not to say that all he says is rubbish. "Pennyless beats bitter" is a good heuristic and shows that he does not claim that it could not have gone south.