I wrote a book for O'Reilly. I got the same advance, $2500. I got paid the same royalty rate, 10%. It wasn't worth it at all financially. I bet I made $6000-$7

I wrote a book for O'Reilly. I got the same advance, $2500. I got paid the same royalty rate, 10%. It wasn't worth it at all financially. I bet I made $6000-$7000 in total. Of course, that's not why I did it. But, in a new consulting role there is a kid who is early twenties. It came up that I wrote a book and I told him the book and the publisher and he said "other than the car parts company I don't know O'Reilly." I was pretty shocked by that. He's a computer science graduate. That generation doesn't read tech books at all apparently. It used to be that this was another item on my resume to stand out. It feels like that is totally devalued. And basically everything else on my resume now that Claude has infinitely more knowledge about everything. It's so depressing.