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Hello friends, I have asked some questions to <@U0PQ0GVLM>
How to be more Effective with Kotlin?
How to write a book that doesn't get obsolete?
Do tech companies under-invest in mentoring and training?
<https://dev.to/jmfayard/how-to-become-effective-with-kotlin-answers-from-marcin-moskala-22jm>

&gt; How to write a book that doesn’t get obsolete?
just answering this question alone could be the subject of a book
and it will make the writer a billionaire ;-)

I think one option is to write it as an opensource project, put it on github/gitlab and maintain it there :slightly_smiling_face:
Where is my first billion?

or it could be closed source but still VCS based and access is sold as a subscription.

That’s what <@ULLMZCT8Q> basically does :slightly_smiling_face:

<@U0CP8EBRV> let’s see if you have got any subscription so far

I haven't written any books, just answered the posed question :)

but you must validate the proposed solution!

It is in fact validated, there are books like that, I stole the idea :D

it’s validated only if they made a billion
which i doubt
as a book author, i can testify it’s a really hard task to keep the content relevant after a few years
or you need to keep it up-to-date
that’s akin to documentation

Some books age well. For me “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” is a perfect example, but also “Code Complete” or “Clean Code”

some do, yes
actually, the more abstract and the less technical ones :wink:

I'm glad we were able to help book writers earn billions :stuck_out_tongue:

<@U0CP8EBRV> speaking of billions, I think Bill Gates was a trailblazer here, he revised ‘The Road Ahead’ like 20x.. (and it was still wrong and missed most the major stuff of the next 20 years…)

<@U0PQ0GVLM> I don’t like either Code Complete or Clean Code, the Go4 book takes the crown for aging, Meyer’s book on OOP is a good one, the book Purely Functional Data Structures aged amazingly well… and of course, Mythical Man Month is the most amazing time-wise.. still radiates genius 45 years later…

Yes, unfortunately after 45 years, mythical man month is still relevant. I keep hoping that one day it will be seen as 'obvious' knowledge.

<@U7D34M1DX> that's a great point, a book that makes an important so clearly that it becomes common knowledge is a very successful one!

Seems like technical books are unavoidably going to be obsolete in a majority of cases and books based on people and interactions between people are more likely to sustain the test of time.