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The table of contents has entries like: > Describe the mindset of most people in Cambodia. Progressive or conservative? Future-focused or present-focused? Work

The table of contents has entries like: > Describe the mindset of most people in Cambodia. Progressive or conservative? Future-focused or present-focused? Work-focused or pleasure-focused? Optimistic or cautious? Pressing for change, or maintaining traditions? Strict or easy-going? Or, if the mindset is very divided between groups, please describe the divide. (Feel free to just share your personal opinion.) .. which doesn't look like a table of contents; it looks like the e-mail you sent to the person that you asked to write the book for you.

sivers 13y ago
Good eye. I looked at that question so many times in the last couple years that I got blind to it. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixed for future editions. The books, instead of being written by one person, are written by 50 different researchers. For every question I had, I found 3 different people to answer it. One local, one expat, one other. That way the book isn't just one person's point of view. Then at the end, an editor combined all the different answers into one, and I went through the final-final to clean it up. I'll write more about this soon. Good lesson learned about making a robust plan versus a fragile plan. At first I thought I'd write all 16 books myself. Next I thought I'd hire one writer per-country. But this system turned out to be a much better way to get different viewpoints. Anyway - thanks again for pointing out the error.
- Sambdala 13y ago
  Just skimming through the linked post, it seemed like you would be writing all 16 of the books (admittedly, this could be my own reading failing), which seemed like a really ambitious goal. Are you planning on writing about the entire process after you've completed your journey?
  - sivers 13y ago
    Yeah. I'll be writing about it very soon. Made a lot of mistakes. Learned some good share-able lessons from the process. You know I always try to describe those, afterwards, in case it can apply to something you're doing.

sivers 13y ago

Good eye. I looked at that question so many times in the last couple years that I got blind to it. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixed for future editions. The books, instead of being written by one person, are written by 50 different researchers. For every question I had, I found 3 different people to answer it. One local, one expat, one other. That way the book isn't just one person's point of view. Then at the end, an editor combined all the different answers into one, and I went through the final-final to clean it up. I'll write more about this soon. Good lesson learned about making a robust plan versus a fragile plan. At first I thought I'd write all 16 books myself. Next I thought I'd hire one writer per-country. But this system turned out to be a much better way to get different viewpoints. Anyway - thanks again for pointing out the error.

Sambdala 13y ago
Just skimming through the linked post, it seemed like you would be writing all 16 of the books (admittedly, this could be my own reading failing), which seemed like a really ambitious goal. Are you planning on writing about the entire process after you've completed your journey?
- sivers 13y ago
  Yeah. I'll be writing about it very soon. Made a lot of mistakes. Learned some good share-able lessons from the process. You know I always try to describe those, afterwards, in case it can apply to something you're doing.