{"id":63,"date":"2012-08-19T11:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-08-19T11:28:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:28:50","slug":"realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/realism\/","title":{"rendered":"Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working every day on the linear algebra chapter in order to push them forward as much as possible before September 1st. I can&#8217;t say that it is going too well. The old cadence of one section per day seems to hold true regardless of how much effort I put into the process. I guess there is some \u00a0natural daily capacity limit for the human mind (at least mine) for the production of thoughtful written word.<\/p>\n<p>This is not good in terms of having Minireference ready on time for the first day of classes. Let&#8217;s do a quick\u00a0assessment\u00a0right now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Math: 90% done.<\/li>\n<li>Physics and Easy Calculus digression: 20% done (will require 4 days)<\/li>\n<li>Vectors: 95% done<\/li>\n<li>Mechanics: 80% done<\/li>\n<li>Calculus: 90% done<\/li>\n<li>Electricity and Magnetism: 70% done (couple of days)<\/li>\n<li>Waves and Optics: 20% done (~ a week of work)<\/li>\n<li>Linear Algebra: 60% done (~ a week to go)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the above estimates, it means that I am about 3 weeks away from a finished product. But wait! Recall that any time estimate ought to be doubled if you want to have a realistic time estimate for the real completion date. What does that leave us with? Aug 19th &#8211;2 montsh&#8211;&gt; Oct 19th. Not to mention that I have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumlah.org\/events\/workshops\/JSW2012.php\/\">give a talk in Singapore<\/a> in the meantime. Hmm&#8230; Not good. Shall we aim for a launch date mid-term?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more important to the whole entreprise and this September&#8217;s market test is the support material and not the actual book content. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Book cover design (Charlotte?)<\/li>\n<li>minireferece.com website (design, pitch text, PDF sample)<\/li>\n<li>One-page condensed content flyers for Calc &amp; Mech<\/li>\n<li>lulu.com (print) \/ ejunkie (pdf) purchase page tests<\/li>\n<li>facebook page for Minireference Co. ?<\/li>\n<li>Who can sell for me at McGill while I am in Bulgaria?<\/li>\n<li>Concordia sales?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow! That is quite a bit of things to do before September 1st. It is kind of depressing to think about all that needs to be done. I have to go into another <em>energy level<\/em> if I am to get through this. Well it is not like I have never overcome obstacles before. I just have to stay together and minimize the down-days. Keep your eyes on the product. The world belongs to those that ship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working every day on the linear algebra chapter in order to push them forward as much as possible before September 1st. I can&#8217;t say that it is going too well. The old cadence of one section per day seems to hold true regardless of how much effort I put into the process. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}