18 Things I Learnt from a 48-Hour eBook Challenge

Last weekend, Karol Gajdaand I took on the challenge of writing – and publishing – a short (5-10k words) ebook in 48 hours.

There are books out there called things like “Java in 24 Hours”. But that isn’t a real 24 hours – it’s 24 individual lessons of an hour or less. You couldn’t actually learn the programming language Java in a day, not even a long day with infinite coffee, free shoulders rubs and somebody stood over you yelling “WRITE THE DAMN BOOK!”

Karol’s idea (itself based on something J...