Summary: This week, Wisereads features an exclusive preview of David Kadavy’s book, How to Sell a Book, which offers insights from his experience selling over 100,000 self-published nonfiction books. The highlights include Rick Steves’ reflections on culture shock, a discussion on entropy’s meaning, and the importance of deadlines from Shopify’s James Stanier. Additionally, the most popular video from Ilya Sutskever discusses the future of AI and data limitations.
“What entropy consistently measures is ignorance: a lack of knowledge about the motion of particles, the next digit in a string of code, or the exact state of a quantum system.” (View Highlight)
“When wielded with grace, good intentions, and knowledge of what gets humans moving and feeling good, deadlines are a powerful tool. Parkinson’s Law is real, and you will need to fight it harder the larger your organization is. (View Highlight)
if your journey is off the beaten path like mine, it takes a combination of exploring what you have to offer, along with being realistic about how much authority you have in a topic, and also realizing unique points of view you don’t notice you have because you are you. It’s really an exciting and often uncomfortable process of self-actualization.” (View Highlight)