The making of: The Modern You – Uncover P3 – Part 3 – The Last Mile
The Last Mile
Release Plan 4: January 2019 – March 2019
Updated Backlog List to Complete the Book:
- Finish the last section – The making of the book
- Create full PDF version and do a complete book review/edits.
- Engage a graphics designer to do the front and back covers
- Push the Amazon Kindle version for sale
- Print the book and make it available through Amazon.com
- Market
The writing of this section 3 is very interesting because of the fact that I need to write on how I wrote the book. Indeed this chapter “The Last Mile” is super interesting because it is about writing on how I wrote the making of the book (Secion3).
In computer programming it is called Recursion. It’s challenging and fun to identify and code recursions.
The section 3 is a recollection of how I had been working on the book for the past nine months, and it was easy for me to do, since I have been following the Time Machine, writing the key pointers regularly.
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Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 1: Jan 1st – Jan 6th
Finished the making of the book – chapter 1, “Inception, Planning and Execution – MVP release” and worked with Sengathir to edit that chapter.
Added competency ladder to the chapter “Skill”.
Updated the review comments from Pranav on the topic “Preface”, “Target Audience” and “Author”.
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 2: Jan 7th – Jan 13th
Did some edits on the topic “Life is a gift”.
Started writing on the release 3. During this time was my biggest delay in my execution, writing about it gave me more focus and strengthened on how to avoid negative spirals.
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 3: Jan 14th – Jan 20th
Finished writing on Release 3.
On the weekend worked with Aiswaryaa, Sengathir and Tharunika to edit the complete chapter on Release 2 & 3.
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 4: Jan 21st – Jan 27th
Created the backlog list for Release 4 and finished topic Tiny Execution 1.
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 5: Jan 28th – Feb 3rd
Updated topic on Time and D2D Marathon.
Finished topics Tiny Executions 2, 3, and 4.
Felt I should write on a topic, “Success and Failure”. Added a new topic under Principles (Section 1).
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 6: Feb 4th – Feb 10th
No time spent on working on the book.
Sprint failed.
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 7: Feb 11th – Feb 17th
Updated “Entrepreneurship” with a paragraph on Quality.
Completed the topic “Success and Failure”.
Created a full PDF version of the book to see how the layout and how much it will cost for the printing.
Initiated the graphics design for the cover page design using Fiverr.com
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 8: Feb 18th – Feb 24th
Reviewed the designs from the graphics designer and provided feedback for correction. Graphics designers always have a magical touch to make the things look great. At this moment, I am very happy with the direction the cover page design is heading towards.
Continue to update “The Last Mile” with notes related to how technology enabled me in writing this book.
Consolidated the information from student editors and updated the “Students Editor” chapter.
Release Plan 4 – Tiny Execution 9: Feb 25th – Mar 3rd
Initiated professional editing using fiverr.com
Technology is an Enabler:
From starting to end of this book technology was utilized to make the journey easier and faster.
- YouTube was utilized as a primary source to do “Egg Hunt”.
- WordPress is utilized to make the website (very little effort is required to create pages and blogs – no software knowledge required to get started and you can do lot more things with that, like running your own ecommerce website etc.).
- Hosted the website using JustHost.com.
- Name.com was utilized to purchase the name for the website.
- SnagIt was used to create infographics – its a very simple tool to create quick illustrations.
- WhatsApp for spreading the message to closed groups and getting quick feedback
- GMail for sending emails between my student editors and taking file backups
- Dropbox for taking website & file backups
- Grammarly was used to correct some of the writing. [My student editors came handy and did the heavy lifting to fix the issues].
- Microsoft Word was used for doing editing and track changes.
- Fiverr.com was utilized to hire freelancers for cover page design, professional editing and formatting. Its worth outsourcing for to fill your gaps and to achieve professional output in your works.
- Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is utilized for publishing the book online version through amazon kindle and they also have paperback printing option at a very affordable cost.
Utilizing these technologies makes the job to be handled immediately. Also it is very affordable, The cost I incurred to just make this book was less than 500$.
5 to 10 years ago this would have costed ten times the cost what I incurred today.
We all have this tools in hand and it is going to get better. So there is no need to wait. You simply need to start and try to use more of the technology to help your journey to achieve your destination quickly.
Summary
Over the period of last 10 months, I was doing activities in small steps and now it is in front of me as a huge endeavor, I was able to achieve this in ease.
Making of this book became a reality by keeping the 4C of Walt Disney (Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy) at heart all the time and executed during the whole time.
Following the patterns helped me, not to deviate from the course and able to achieve my end goal.
I can more than 100% sure you can achieve by adapting the patterns and execute till the goal is reached. f