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Think First: My No-Nonsense Approach to Creating Successful Products, Memorable User Experiences + Very Happy Customers
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can’t stop talking about it. This guide proposes a different way of planning, writing, testing, and refining nonfiction, adapted from the hard-won lessons of product designers and entrepreneurs. When applied properly, it leads to books that can grow organically via reader recommendations
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
the right price point or feature set? Whereas designing the world’s best TV for a specific type of someone — the hearing impaired, parents of young kids, executive boardrooms — becomes
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
significantly more guaranteed marketing, which is also a fine deal. In any case, there’s a trick to getting the best of both worlds. Savvy authors have recently been choosing to self-publish their first 10,000 copies and then transition afterwards into a publishing deal. If you’re able to go this route, you’ll receive full royalties from the first
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Here's what I learned from Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd:
-When writing memoir, never insert present knowledge about your past if it means condemning your past self or celebrating your present self. I don’t need to write that, at my 30th birthday party I “had the nerve to make an outfit change.” At the time, I th
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