Midsummer post: chronicles of a slow summer
Also, book draft status report and plans.
Greetings to all readers and subscribers, and special greetings to the paid subscribers!
This is me swimming with my sweet one year old doggy Emily, first time in the water (yes, dogs can swim the first time - I’m not holding her in the picture).
I haven’t posted much in the last few weeks: I’m enjoying a slow, mostly offline summer, and I took a longish entirely offline break. I plan to take another entirely offline break later this week.
I’m also completing the revision of my book draft and I’ll share a new draft soon. The revision process so far confirms the old saying that one does 80% of the work in 20% of the time, but then has to spend the remaining 80% of the time to do the remaining 20% of the work. However, the revision process is advancing. I wish to thank the early readers who sent me useful comments and suggestions.
I’ve revised the first 14 chapters (all chapters but the last one). In the next few days I’ll revise the last chapter and go over the full revision. Then I plan to share the new draft of my book in my next post here.
Then I plan to do another faster revision and publish the book after a few weeks. Of course I could continue to try and make the book better and better, but that would go on forever. At some point, one just has to say that good enough is good enough. I keep reminding myself that I can’t and don’t have to make this book perfect: I just have to make it as good as I can.
Once the book is published I plan to do less writing (writing this book has been quite exhausting) and more conversations and podcasts. Speaking of which:
The only social network that I’m using is X. At times I post pictures like the one above to Instagram or Facebook, or share some content via other networks, but X is where I am most of the time and interact with others.
So I wish to invite to follow me and join the Turing Church community on X.
I plan to host regular one-on-one interviews and Turing Church gatherings via X Spaces, and publish (parts of) the recordings in the Turing Church podcast.
I’ll not abandon the Turing Church Facebook group, or the Discord server, or the mailing list, but it makes sense for me to dedicate more attention to X. For those who don’t like X for any reason, I plan to revive and energize the good old Turing Church mailing list.