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If not bankrupt in three years like Lucid and Rivian, I'll still buy a Cybercab instead. Also, I hope they succeed. There's definitely a market for them.

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Who are they?

I use yellow legal pads and 4x6" notecards... and probably ship more substantive writing than 96% of people on the planet.

Next post should be How to Create TPS Reports

Indeed. I got cookied by Google Ads and likely, many other platforms, while reading it.

For anyone who wants an analog version of this: https://youtu.be/UV7vaqElPHk?si=_c-rxqV4RGhluTJS

This reminds me of Light Table from a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3836978

I am old school. I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features. Not everyone is a "digital writer."

Hate that if you use Word for Mac, you now have Copilot next to your cursor with no way of turning it off.

I just want to use Word. I like its print layout features better than Pages. I don't want to switch. Just let me write and leave me alone. Now they're jamming AI down my throat without any opt-out mechanism.

Niklas Luhmann's systems theory rests on autopoiesis.

Some of the worst advice I read comes from some of the smartest people out there.

Non-fiction

Yes.

Sad. I did $403k last month as an independent writer. All analog publishing. None of it from KDP. Be careful what advice you listen to.

Cool idea and implementation. Great job.

I personally hand draw diagrams and then recreate them in Balsamiq (old school).

I, myself, won't use it because there's a lot of creation and innovation that happens in the transition phase when going from hand-drawn sketches to creating the diagrams.

That's called PayPal

How about you help build that if you want that?

Now that's copywriting

I agree. Not everything has to be a conspiracy. Microsoft looked at a $10m+/year cost center, and deemed it unnecessary (which it arguably was), and snipped it.

I can just imagine the meeting of the people who created the 11 page how to use this website pdf. Awful.

I'm one of the suckers who bought it for $10k in 2021 and waited around.

It wasn't worth it until the most recent update. It no longer drives like a grandma. It's smooth and useful.

Whelp, there goes my afternoon.

It's probably added $30k/day in revenue. Meanwhile Cyberduck gets $30/day via donations.

Said "other knowledge product" which includes essays, course, code, etc.

Probably a higher ratio have, yes. Less distracting things to fool around with when you use a pen, paper, and your brain.

I'm not sure many are going to invest the mental energy to read all of this. A tl;dr summary would be nice.

I ran a poll recently in a PKM community of 17,000 members asking who has written a book—or created some other knowledge product like a course—using their tool (Obsidian, Zettelkasten, LogSeq, etc.).

I received two responses of people who actually produced something.

The vast majority, it seems, are professional note-taking junkies.

People in the Obsidian forum spend their lives fooling around with metadata conventions and "tagging" and "wikilinks" instead of producing work that actually matters.

Intellectual procrastination at its finest.

Now we have this... ODIN—a way to outsource your intellectual note-taking procrastination to AI.

Note: The requirement wasn't just a book. It was any "published knowledge product" which I define as book, code, course, essay, etc. (What Naval Ravikant calls Specific Knowledge).

I'm writing from company's perspective, not cheap consumer's.

$12.95/mo. Or $120/year