Re: nyt

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Feb 4, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> > independent is good.  a book would be a very useful thing to write  
> > if you
> > can do it ... puts you in a different league, particularly if you  
> > can write
> > more than one.
>
> yeah, i feel like I'd be fairly good at grinding out writing and I
> have lots of ideas for books. guess I should give it a try.

it isn't that hard.  and, you can only write a few hours a day, so  
sometimes you actually have time to do other things.  you and becky  
make a pretty good swat team for big complicated projects ...

let me know if you need advice on books and proposals and stuff ...  
after this nytimes piece, you'll have a real hacker reputation, so  
that would make it easier to sell the book to a publisher (of self- 
publish if you go that route, probably not a good idea for you, but  
you can consider it).