17 connected korrents · 12 moments from 4 Nov 2022 to 15 Sept 2026.
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The traditional book publishing industry is not broken; it is currently growing, driven by online sales, digital formats, and self-publishing.
Last stated 16 Oct 2025 · a year ago
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Paul Millerd
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Despite the internet disrupting other media industries, book sales continue to grow.
Last stated 25 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
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Eliot Peper
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Book publishing follows a waterfall process: once a book is submitted and printed, it can no longer be revised.
Last stated 15 Jan 2024 · 3 years ago
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Andrew Chen
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There is real and growing reader demand for premium, independently published books.
Last stated 16 Oct 2025 · a year ago
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Paul Millerd
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Publishing industry claims to predict how trends will play out, but such predictions are unreliable.
Last stated 15 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Lincoln Michel
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Legacy publishers persist mainly because passive backlist income sustains them, not because they serve authors well.
Last stated 16 Oct 2025 · a year ago
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Paul Millerd
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Most book authors optimise for the status of being published, chasing bestseller lists and reviews instead of the reader.
Last stated 26 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Seth Godin
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Even the most commercially successful books are written for a very small group of people rather than for everyone.
Last stated 26 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Seth Godin
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You should only start a book you believe is going to be great, whatever it turns out to be.
Last stated 15 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
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Michael Lewis
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Same subject: capitalism
A "good business" now means one that can display quarter-on-quarter stock growth, not one that makes good products at a fair price.
Last stated 21 May 2025 · a year ago
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Ed Zitron
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Same subject: capitalism
A competitive market involves no personal rivalry and no personal haggling
Last stated c. 1962
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Milton Friedman
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Same subject: capitalism
A market becomes commodified through fungibility of alternatives, not merely through lower price.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Rohit Krishnan
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Same subject: motivation
A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.
Last stated 10 Jan 2024 · 3 years ago
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Cate Hall
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Same subject: motivation
A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them.
Last stated 19 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago
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Aravind Srinivas
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Same subject: motivation
A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death
Last stated c. 1651
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Thomas Hobbes
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Same subject: ambition
"If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.
Last stated 25 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
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Jason Cohen
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Same subject: ambition
A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.
Last stated 3 Aug 2025 · a year ago
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William MacAskill
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Same subject: ambition
A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress
Last stated 4 Nov 2022 · 4 years ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson