Uncertain Updates: November 2024
I wrote a whole book! What's next?
I'm currently doing an edit pass on the entire book. I need to rewrite some of the early sections, fix some consistency issues, and generally look with fresh eyes on words I wrote months or years ago. Many people provided helpful comments, and I'm using those to make the second draft better.
When the second draft is done, I'll look to hire one or two editors/pre-readers, ideally from the LessWrong community, who can go through it and point out all the obvious mistakes that are still in the book, plus help me make the confusing parts clearer.
Once that's done, I'll be ready to publish. That might mean finding a traditional publisher who will take a chance on a monograph from an unknown author, but more likely I'll self publish, which will give me greater flexibility to make the book available in many forms, including a free-to-read version on the web. If you have experience here, I'd love to talk to you!
Non-book updates
I’ve written some other things recently (I would say in the last month, but this is the first update, so the cut-off is arbitrary).
I published my first Less Wrong post in a while. It’s an expanded version of a tweet I made a while back. It’s about my writing process and how I think.
I’ve been trying to Tweet more to build my audience, per the above. I’m having some limited success. A few interesting Tweets I made in the last month. Image previews with links to follow:
These are all from the last few days. Now that I know I’m going to do this, I’ll try to keep track of when I write Tweets that I think are interesting so I can share a curated list of them with you here.