12 Feb
2015
12 Feb
'15
12:26 a.m.
On Feb 11, 2015, at 2:34 PM, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
That begs the question as to whether it really needs doing it all.
One of my favorite books, and one that I return to year after year, is 'Hackers'
by Steven Levy. I read this book in high school in the 80s and it helped set my life
direction. I'm not alone - I think there was an article about John Carmack being
influenced by it as well, and when I was interviewing a few years ago, the founder of the
company I visited also called out the book "Have you read this!?". I'm
glad that book was written. Would / could Evan's be as seminal?
Why
should people PAY you to write a book?
Because otherwise it may never be written.
Who else will do it? Point taken, but I found the tone of Evan's
message (and others of his recently) to be overly self-aggrandizing and whiny at the same
time. If he's going to post in a public forum, the forum is entitled to have its
reactions. I'm not asking anyone else to agree with or share in my reaction.
We're all aspies on this bus...
I think this project could be more successful if it had more concrete promises, or allowed
a view into its creation. I've backed and been pleased by the results of several book
efforts on Kickstarter, all of which provided incremental updates.
--sma