Failure Friday a year spent writing the wrong book.

Man as I was working on this episode I was like this year spent writing the wrong book.

Man, as I was working on this episode,

I was like, this could have been my story, actually.

We're gonna hear a story from a programmer

who spent a year writing a 300-page book only to realize it was kind of the wrong book.

It wasn't the book he should have been writing.

In his case he realized it was overly generic and unappealing.

So my story wouldn't be exactly like that, but I have written a number of books.

I've gotten about halfway through writing a book and realize this is not the book I should be writing right now.

And it's difficult because you're like well hopefully I'm

gonna that process is going to lead to the better book but then you're also like man I

spent three months or you know whatever the time might be,

working on this project in which I now have to kind of move on from,

which ultimately is what life is about, right?

We start different things, we try things,

we go down different paths,

and hopefully we eventually get to the thing that is most appropriate,

most meaningful for us where we can make an impact, you know, live a good life, love people,

all those good things, but it is frustrating when you go down a path

and realize you spend a lot of time and you're not going to get that time back.

So let's talk about it from this person's story. This is David, and today of course is our failure Friday segment where we look

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