“Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration…”
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…remarked Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light bulb and a man familiar with the challenges of the creative process. It takes real struggle to birth something, be it a child, a contraption, or in our case, a book. We’ve come a long way with CyberChaikhana, and after the late-summer interlude it’s now time to leap back into the struggle.
I will begin writing the complete rough draft manuscript, chapter by chapter. It will take me a few months to finish; as I proceed, I will release material. Additionally, I will return to my previous habit of publishing a post in this space at least once a week. I invite everyone to join our Google group to receive automatic updates, and most of all to spread the word — Schwartz and CyberChaikhana are back!
Here’s a round-up of all the pertinent posts herein:
- About the project
- The chapter list
- A sample chapter
- The selected raw blog materials for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgystan and Kazakhstan
- A note about the productive Philadelphia meeting
- And a reflection on writing a book derived from weblogging
We’ve also attracted the attention of some very cool academics, including Mike Gallen, an Americanist from La Salle and Cambridge Universities who is now at Carnegie Mellon University; Sabrina DeTurk, an associate dean of graduate studies at Saint Joseph’s Univesity; and J. Nathan Matias, another Cambridge alum and founder of the World University Project, with whom I’ll be working in the near future.
There are also exciting things going on behind the scenes at neweurasia, but I’ve been sworn to secrecy. Don’t worry, none of it is as dramatic as what’s happened lately on Wall Street, but the strategists are really going to try to push some boundaries during the next several months.
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