Writing a Book, Feeling Stuck, and Creating Incentives

Tom and Paul talk through Tom's challenges at this inflection point in his indie career, a book he's planning on shipping and how to think through indie consultant identity crises

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⌛TIMESTAMPS

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:49) - Guest introduction
• (03:13) - Tom's problem — indecisiveness
• (07:27) - What does Tom think he should be doing?
• (09:50) - Not working, go and wonder, owning time
• (14:07) - 7th week off, shaking things up
• (18:16) - Strategically dropping the ball
• (23:20) - Should Tom hire an editor?
• (25:14) - The fear of finishing the book
• (33:59) - The last 10% are the hardest
• (36:16) - Writing the introduction, injecting the book with a personal story
• (40:36) - Preselling his book as a motivation?
• (42:10) - How Paul was pushing Tom to write his book
• (43:59) - Closing remarks

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