He said it was unfiltered. If I was giving out some of my unfiltered thoughts, I don't think I'd want them floating around the Internet for anyone to read at any moment.
If you’re not comfortable with something “floating around on the internet” show could you possibly be comfortable SELLING that thing to the same people?
Of course. It means people genuinely interested in your content will have it, but people looking to score cheap Internet points on you won't. ("Did you know he once called chapter 5 of Bob Smith's book 'under-researched," and Bob Smith's grandfather is Puerto Rican, so he's literally saying that people of color are stupid")
If you look at the link, that's what he actually says.
Sometimes these notes are not things I want to share with the whole world, but might be helpful for a few people.
So what do I do? I release them, but only for a limited time. I also put on a price tag — not because I expect to make any money, but so that only those genuinely interested will read it.Yeah, I agree. The "limited time only" seems manipulative and totally unnecessary.
I'm less convinced by the criticism about the notes potentially not being worth the money. That's true of basically all products.
In this case, if the buyer chooses to buy these notes based on the minimal information the author has shared, then the buyer should be ready to accept the possibility that the notes won't be what they expected.
> There's value in distilling information from a bloated book down to its useful ideas.
Yes, but it's not clear at all that this $25 limited-time-only set of notes actually does that, and they cost more than a book that is decidedly not bloated (it's 100 pages, 33 chapters, and each chapter is quite short).