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Welcome back. This will be a very short episode. Not that my other episodes are long necessarily. I think I have one of the shortest podcasts out there, but this one will be shorter than normal. My new book, The Art of Spending Money, comes out in just about a month.

And look, when you're writing a book, the traditional way to do it is that you write one book about one topic.

And the problem with that, particularly in nonfiction, and I think everyone who reads or has read a nonfiction book will relate to this.

The problem is that most topics, nonfiction, do not require 300 pages of explanation.

You can get your point across in a couple. Many years ago, Joe Weisenthal, who is a great journalist, he's at Bloomberg now, he had this funny tweet where he said,

most books could be an article, most articles could be a tweet, and every tweet should be a

retweet. And to that point, a lot of nonfiction business books out there could have been 10 pages

or less. And look, that's even true. There's even some books that I love and recommend and say, oh, that is a great book.

You should read that book.

That I myself didn't make it to chapter 5 because I got the point.

And it was a great point.

It was a point that changed my thinking, but I don't need to read the rest.

I have always tried to get around that conundrum with nonfiction books by saying, look,

there is a cohesive theme to this book, but I'm going to tackle it from a dozen different angles,

and every chapter should be able to live independently. Every chapter is not an extension on the

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