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Review: Exploring the Practice of Antifragility

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I wrote a review on Amazon for Exploring the Practice of Antifragility . I am republishing it here: First disclosure: As of the 5 th of December 2015, I am a contributor to this book! I do not have a financial stake in it, but I do wish the book to succeed, because I believe the idea of antifragility to be important. I won't review my own contribution, of course, but stick to the things I have read by the other contributors. Second , Exploring the Practice of Antifragility is itself antifragile! The book is a Kindle ebook, and like all Kindle books, it can be updated with new material from time to time. This means the book itself can evolve according to pressure from the environment, i.e. reviews and sales data can actually make this book better over time. Thus, if you buy the book, think of a way to improve it, and write about it in a review, your wish might come true. While this is possible to do with all Kindle ebooks, I do not think too many of them make good use

The season of the jolly speedwriter!

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I've been speedwriting again! This time about how to write and publish a book very fast:   Skriv och sälj!: Skriv och sälj en bok på 14 dagar (Write and Sell!: Write and sell a book in 14 days) is out on Adlibris ,  Bokus , Dito , and Bokon . Actually, speedwriting  is a misnomer. I am, have always been, and always will be, a slow writer. The idea with Write and sell!  is to reduce queue and wait times in a book production process, the same way we can reduce it in software development processes (Agile), in product development (Lean Product Development), and in manufacturing (Lean, TOC). I am digging down to the queueing theory with this one, and going with it all the way to what to do, and how to do it. Writing and publishing the book took only nine days. I had planned to do it in 14 days, but the gods of time buffering were on my side this time around. Writing and publishing the book took only nine days. The reason why the lead time was so short, is that I utilize