Post #4134627
2026-07-25 16:44 UTC
You can take a lot of hits in tech, you know. I actually had an earlier version of this book proposal which a really influential editor wanted, but he only wanted it as long as I was still a VP at a tech company. There was a large marketing proposal attached to the book, all based on the Dev Success Lab's work. It felt like a dream: I'd sweated and fought so so hard for publishing open empirical science and then the audience had shown up and because of it I was going to get that!
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 16:46
And then it vanished, in the way that things can vanish, the structure falling out. At the exact same time I experienced these massive health challenges that made it difficult to sit and write for long hours. I was always going to write the book *I* wanted to write (that was baked into every single proposal), but this project became sharper, stripped down to the essence. But in a weird way....free. Suddenly I was writing at home, in pain, asking myself "what really matters to say right now"