A book is a summary of ideas that have been squished together to make it palatable. Seth Godin has said candidly multiple times, my book or books are just my blog posts,. He puts a blog post that either did well or got him thinking, and he expands on that story in the book. So I haven't read any of his books, but being reading his blog for about two and a bit years now. The only reason I would need to go back to see where the original idea was is if I'm looking at history, which that's not my field. And when I look at other authors like Ryan holiday, he says once I've written a book, it