Ask the Author: Michael C. Taylor
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Michael C. Taylor
Figuring out how to market my book without suffering too much. Marketing hurts me in the deepest part of my identity.
Michael C. Taylor
Somewhere between a half a pot of coffee and the entire pot of coffee
Michael C. Taylor
Read a lot. When uncertain, attempt to write "a shi**y first draft" as Annie Lamott describes it in Bird by Bird
Michael C. Taylor
Less of a "boss" than other jobs
Michael C. Taylor
I like and have used the suggestion from Julie Cameron in The Artist's Way to write "The Morning Papers" to clear out all the clutter.
Michael C. Taylor
One stimulus: I taught a personal finance course for college undergraduates and felt frustrated by the available books that could be used as texts.
Second stimulus: Personal finance books that I've read never assume readers could master the bit of mathematics upon which banking and insurance industries are built - compound interest and discounting cashflows.
Third stimulus - Finance books are typically super-boring, and I thought a lighter tone would help - a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.
Second stimulus: Personal finance books that I've read never assume readers could master the bit of mathematics upon which banking and insurance industries are built - compound interest and discounting cashflows.
Third stimulus - Finance books are typically super-boring, and I thought a lighter tone would help - a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.
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