The funny thing is that it seems that still now… In the year 2024, do you have a book, to write a book, to publish a book etc. is seen as one of the Apex forms of success. Yet honestly… Who has the time to read a book anymore?

I have a theory: let us say that you’re thinking about researching something, obviously you will buy a book on the topic. Yet it almost becomes funny enough, a lazy way out. You buy book on the topic, and you let it sit on your shelf as “reference” material… but you “outsource” your thinking of the topic by doing the “lazy” thing — buying the book.

Some critical issues here:

1. Honestly, 99.9% of books are just not worth reading in general. It will get quickly outdated, either the statistical modeling, the concept and ideas etc.
2. Second, getting a book contract nowadays not that big of a deal. There are so many publishers now, and often there’s this bad scheme in which the author has to front the money, to the publisher, just to get some sort of weird legitimacy, in order to publish it? This happens both an academic books, scholarly books, and even photo books!