Ready for the world
summary
A concrete account of how a concept becomes a printed book with tools and failures: a choose‑your‑own‑adventure guide called Ask This Book a Question, designed completely in Figma, evolving from a movable cognitive bias wheel to movable spreads, a pocket guide and finally a hardcover after thousands of iterations, publisher pushback about polish, DIY cover and illustrations, a proposal that looks like a UI flowchart, and a last‑minute Pentel 0.5 mm lead memory that forces harder, more personal writing.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:36Creative energy inside us
- 3:51Behavioral science to book idea
- 6:16Mapo tofu breakthrough
- 8:42Introducing Ask This Book
- 10:27Writing the proposal
- 11:53Finding your voice
- 13:19Book design yours
- 14:22Hardest part of writing
- 15:24Recovering lost memories
- 17:39Shift in noticing
- 19:02Kishotenketsu curiosity
- 20:46Energy through friends
- 21:08Poem on readiness
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