{"id":25068,"date":"2024-04-03T23:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=25068"},"modified":"2024-04-03T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:00:57","slug":"jason-shen-on-writing-something-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/jason-shen-on-writing-something-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Shen on Writing Something Useful"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Above all else, I wanted The Path to Pivot to be a Useful Book.<\/div>\n
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So I turned to an expert.<\/div>\n
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@robfitz  is the author of The Mom Test, which has helped tens of thousands of founders validate their ideas better.<\/div>\n
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He wrote another one on workshops that I highly recommend.<\/div>\n
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But it’s his third book, titled:<\/div>\n
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Write Useful Books<\/div>\n
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That really influenced how I wrote mine<\/div>\n
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Ever the entrepreneur, Rob advocates extensive beta reading.<\/div>\n
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He even built a piece of software (HelpThisBook dot com) to track how people move through your book.<\/div>\n
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It looks just like a product retention curve so of course I love it 🤓<\/div>\n
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Through Help This Book and the Useful Authors community, I collected 503 pieces of feedback.<\/div>\n
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From “love this so much” to “the words aren’t wording” (for real)<\/div>\n
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Iterating over 6 versions of the book give me confidence that I have a might have a reasonably Useful Book on my hands.<\/div>\n
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But ultimately that’s for you to decide.<\/div>\n
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My ambition is that in 10 years, The Path to Pivot is the book every seasoned founder, investor, or advisor recommends to someone considering a pivot.<\/div>\n
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(Make no small plans)<\/div>\n
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Above all else, I wanted The Path to Pivot to be a Useful Book. So I turned to an expert. @robfitz  is the author of The Mom Test, which has helped tens of thousands of founders validate their ideas better. He wrote another one on workshops that I highly recommend. But it’s his third book, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}