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Did you also write "Inspire!: Inspiration for Life and Life at Work" ? Goodreads seems to think so. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14291276.Joel_Burke h

by raybb 9mo ago

Did you also write "Inspire!: Inspiration for Life and Life at Work" ? Goodreads seems to think so. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14291276.Joel_Burke https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14291276.Joel_Burke

asveikau 9mo ago
That one goodreads review for the Estonia book is amusing. One reader criticized him for providing references. I feel like that's a positive, not a negative, and if you find it uninteresting those tend to be easy to skip.
- atlasunshrugged 9mo ago
  Yeah, I have to admit because this was my first work I maybe overdid it in providing references because I wanted to default to having real historical data and not just writing a lot of personal opinions with no backing (it was a nightmare writing up that reference section but I'm glad I did it in the end) and if I'm being honest, because I'm not in academia and didn't have credentials as an "Estonia expert" I wanted to play it safe. Edit: Added some context and I'd also mention that one thing that was quite helpful is that at the start of the writing process I created a massive spreadsheet where I'd add in quotes, writing, and anything interesting I thought I might pull from (some of it manually written, like when watching documentaries). This was hugely helpful when I was going back but also during the writing process so I had a single source of truth I could keyword search. I've just checked it and its got 4787 rows, with most entries being about a paragraph long
  - asveikau 9mo ago
    It sounds like you did the right thing and that guy is grumpy.
    - atlasunshrugged 9mo ago
      I appreciate that!
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atlasunshrugged 9mo ago
Ha, I didn't, I wish Goodreads would get a major update!
- efreak 9mo ago
  I'm (somehow) no longer a goodreads editor, so I can't fix it for you, but there's a forum you can post in to say that you're not the person who wrote all those travel books and get your book detached from them.
  - atlasunshrugged 9mo ago
    Oh that's a great flag, I've just gone into their system and done that, appreciate the tip!

by raybb 9mo ago

asveikau 9mo ago

That one goodreads review for the Estonia book is amusing. One reader criticized him for providing references. I feel like that's a positive, not a negative, and if you find it uninteresting those tend to be easy to skip.

atlasunshrugged 9mo ago
Yeah, I have to admit because this was my first work I maybe overdid it in providing references because I wanted to default to having real historical data and not just writing a lot of personal opinions with no backing (it was a nightmare writing up that reference section but I'm glad I did it in the end) and if I'm being honest, because I'm not in academia and didn't have credentials as an "Estonia expert" I wanted to play it safe. Edit: Added some context and I'd also mention that one thing that was quite helpful is that at the start of the writing process I created a massive spreadsheet where I'd add in quotes, writing, and anything interesting I thought I might pull from (some of it manually written, like when watching documentaries). This was hugely helpful when I was going back but also during the writing process so I had a single source of truth I could keyword search. I've just checked it and its got 4787 rows, with most entries being about a paragraph long
- asveikau 9mo ago
  It sounds like you did the right thing and that guy is grumpy.
  - atlasunshrugged 9mo ago
    I appreciate that!

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atlasunshrugged 9mo ago

Ha, I didn't, I wish Goodreads would get a major update!

efreak 9mo ago
I'm (somehow) no longer a goodreads editor, so I can't fix it for you, but there's a forum you can post in to say that you're not the person who wrote all those travel books and get your book detached from them.
- atlasunshrugged 9mo ago
  Oh that's a great flag, I've just gone into their system and done that, appreciate the tip!