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The framework for writing my book 📕

2024-04-25 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:48 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books and reading · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Lesson from a book, His own products discussed

In a Short, Ali weighs two ways to write a non-fiction book: a listicle of short lessons like Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money, or a framework worked through part by part like James Clear's Atomic Habits; he suspects a framework serves readers new to a topic better, while a listicle suits a topic they already know.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Listicle or framework: two ways of approaching writing his book

  • ★★ Ali sees two ways to approach writing his book: a listicle of short stories, like Morgan Housel's writing, or a framework worked through part by part, like James Clear's Atomic Habits or the four-part framework of The 4-Hour Workweek. — 00:00:00 · James Clear, Atomic Habits, The 4-Hour Workweek
  • ★★★ For readers meeting a topic for the first time, Ali wonders whether a framework is better: having never read a book about habits, he found Atomic Habits' framework of cue, craving, response and reward more useful than 20 disparate lessons with stories would have been. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Atomic Habits
  • ★★ Ali has read loads about money, where there is no real framework, so The Psychology of Money suits a bite-size listicle; he likes both approaches, but there he really liked Morgan Housel's listicle, blog-post style. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you write things people want to read? — For readers meeting a topic for the first time, Ali wonders whether a framework is better: having never read a book about habits, he found Atomic Habits' framework of cue, craving, response and reward more useful than 20 disparate lessons with stories would have been. (00:00:00)

Mentioned

Atomic Habits · habit loop · James Clear · Morgan Housel · The 4-Hour Workweek · The Psychology of Money

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

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