Since being laid off from Twitter, a lot of folks have suggested I write a book. It makes sense given my career and experiences, not just Twitter, but in applied responsible AI.
What they don’t know is I’ve been fiddling with a proposal for years and have backed off from four different agencies because of the deeply ingrained stereotypes that exist of what books are expected of someone like me 1/
@ruchowdh that's... frustrating. I honestly think a lot of these agencies feel they NEED to make these kinds of statements to feel like they're doing something.
It's nowhere near as bad as what you were told, but I've had a similar experience over the last decade of shopping an occasional book proposal. People told me to just keep shopping it, but it just seemed like too much nonsense.
@ruchowdh during the internet boom years i had a proposal for writing about how to build an even better internet (and world), and was told "the market only wants contrarian anti-internet books."
Then when things went to shit for the internet, I tried again, thinking things had shifted, and was told "no one wants books about a good internet"
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