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LM: #384: My biggest bet yet
Next Monday, my book Finish What Matters debuts (don’t forget to pre-order on Amazon before the price goes up).
This book caps off a trilogy I’ve been working on for ten years (and many of you have been readers that whole time!).
It’s also my biggest bet yet.
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This book for me is a test of what happens when I invest every resource I have into clarity. More than any previous book, I’ve aimed to have a clear view of all my options of what I could or should say. To come as close as possible to having total conviction that I’ve said what I want to.
Compared to my previous book, Mind Management, this time around I have:
- 5 more years writing experience
- A Zettelkasten of 50,000 notes from my reading and thinking
- The fruits of a research trip to Italy
- A cabin in the mountains, where I’ve been separated from distractions
- One year of daily one-hour meditation
- Somatic release during my meditation sessions
- The leverage of LLMs for deeper research and a more thorough revision process
- Interviews with dozens of real creatives at all levels
I’m placing this bet because I am optimistic about a world where quality leads to reach, even if the definition of quality is quite different from the status quo.
This will be one data point on the effectiveness of having conviction about what is right in a domain where there is no right answer, making an unreasonable investment in the clarity of that idiosyncratic sense of quality, and daring to choose as heroes those who found their own way of measuring the meaning of the word matters.
I hope you will feel compelled to pre-order on Amazon, and even more that you will enjoy my weird version of right.
Aphorism: “Rationality is wasted if you don’t know when to use it.” —Shane Parrish
Cool: This brush (on Amazon) can actually clean the inside of your water bottle
Best,
David
P.S. The price of Finish What Matters goes up on launch day, so pre-order now.
