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634 points david927 | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.726s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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txutxu ◴[] No.41349077[source]
I'm writing a book. A novel. By hand (this is, no AI involved, just me and vim).

Sometimes I feel I'm loosing the time, because nowadays there is a lot of AI generated content and even more competence in self-published books.

After a long walk against myself, of about 10 months, it's nearly finished (in my native language, Spanish). It still needs a few more reviews and retouching.

I got recently unemployed after +20 years as Linux sysadmin, and my wife is now unemployed too (after +20 years in HHRR), fortunately we have still a few savings.

I dream that it will (economically) work, but most of the time I intuit there will be less than a few sales from family and friends.

Depending on how it goes, I've already the script for the second and third parts.

In parallel I'm researching different ways to generate cash flow without working for another person. I would like to avoid going to search for a job in the current market of cloud, docker and kubernetes, as I'm more a hardware/colocation guy, and 99,9% of job offers request for docker/kubernetes.

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phainopepla2 ◴[] No.41349201[source]
When you say "by hand" do you mean with a pen and paper rather than typing it out? If so, can you say something more about why?
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1. als0 ◴[] No.41349237[source]
He says he uses Vim, which is on the computer.
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2. phainopepla2 ◴[] No.41349273[source]
He edited his comment to add that detail after I asked