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Nimitz won at Midway with this Amazon.com productivity trick

(I originally published this on LinkedIn, 2015) Amazon.com has a famous practice of making its meeting time more productive by having executives sit in a room together and begin the meeting by reading detailed six-page narratives. (See http://research.gigaom.com/2013/10/

getting Spinningup by OpenAI to run on Mac Big Sur

OpenAI’s spinningup is an exemplary educational resource produced by OpenAI that makes it easier to learn about deep reinforcement learning (deep RL). It’s very thorough and comprehensive; it has well written explanations of major concepts & algorithms and links to all the

Nimble AI Release 1.1.0-Michener

Release 1.1.0-Michener Replaces email delivery of "Analyze This Document" with https download. There is a maximum 120 second for report creation before timeout. In future I will implement a proper asynchronous solution, and email delivery will return as an option. Fixes bug

Coming soon: a helpful AI Muse from Nimble Books

Whenever you start a writing project, ask the Nimble AI for help! Coming soon...

Two books about space warfare

I'm excited to announce that Nimble Books has signed a two-book contract with space warfare expert Paul Szymanski. This is a big milestone towards my vision of helping build the publishing ecosystem around the military history of space. FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR OUTER SPACE WARFARE

A prospectus for long-form completions

Immersive deep reading of high-quality books must rank among the most beneficial and broadly distributed technologies ever invented (see inter alia McLuhan, 1962; McDermott, 2006; Boorstin, 1992; UNESCO 2019). Yet this vital experience remains tightly constrained by scarcity: of classics, of representation, of accessibility,

Python Royalty Accounting & Sales Analysis Software for Kindle Direct Publishing and LSI/Ingram

This year I wrote a Python program to handle my sales analysis and royalty accounting needs. It takes Kindle Direct and Lightning Source report files and converts them into Pandas

Where you can buy RAGING TWENTIES by Pepe Escobar

RAGING TWENTIES is distributed both by Ingram, the largest U.S. distributor (hardcover) and Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (paperback and Kindle formats). Accordingly, it is available from almost all online bookstores. The Wikipedia ISBN pages for the paperback and hardcover provides a super comprehensive

Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism in the Era of COVID-19

During my fifteen years as a publisher I am proud to have published books from every part of the political spectrum, left, right, and center. My personal politics are those of a Joe Manchin Democrat (with a generous dash of pigheaded contrarianism) but I

Images are back!

Images were not working for a while because of a problem with the way I had set up SSL / https. Now they are back! Yay!

DNS migration in process

Moving from Ghost Pro to self-hosted Ghost. If anything seems wrong, shoot me an email at wfz at nimblebooks.com.

new from Nimble: the first book published using OpenAI's GPT-3

Topline My company Nimble Books today published the first book written using OpenAI's GPT-3 generative text engine. This was a big milestone for me personally as I have been exploring algorithmic publishing for most of the last decade. For more info, see: Eccentric Dictionaries:

The President's Daily Brief Fifty Years Ago series #PDB50 launches today

Over the years, the Central Intelligence Agency has released redacted versions of every President's Daily Brief from 1961 to 1977. They are, of course, available via the CIA website, but there are thousands of PDFs and tens of thousands of pages, so there's a

Six new titles; how to publish with Nimble; Style Guide; and faster royalty statements in future

New from Nimble Books: PIECES OF HISTORY: ARTIFACTS OF THE PT BOAT NAVY in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle. MTBSTC: MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT SQUADRON TRAINING CENTER first time in paperback -- much more affordable! THE GREAT SPACE FORCE DEBATE: A WAY FORWARD FROM THE PAST?

Interview with John Cinnamon, an early voice for Space Force

Colonel John D. Cinnamon was an early advocate for an independent Space Force, an argument he articulated in a 2012 master's thesis at the Naval Postgraduate Warfare school just republished by Nimble Books as part of my effort to accelerate the growth of the

Lightning Source to Pandas

Something different today -- a spinoff of some work I've been doing to analyze my sales statistics and prioritize new publications. This script imports publisher sales data files from Lightning Source, Inc. into a Pandas dataframe. Lightning Source is the largest US print on

Happy Thanksgiving: the words of Wilbur Cross

It was Charlie Floto, publisher of Sextant: The Magazine for Heath/Zenith Computer Users, who gave me my first professional publishing job in 1982 and who first showed me that "Publisher" is the best and coolest of all possible job titles. I remain grateful

space power

the power of myth; the myth of asymmetry; the myth of peace; and the power of Pandas

Another busy week here at Nimble Books as I continue to reinvent myself at age 59 1/2. This week combined classic publishing activities--acquisition, copy editing, and marketing--with algorithmic ones--sales modeling using Python's pandas module. The power of myth I received the manuscript for

space power

Coalition of the Willing ... in Space?

That's my slightly tongue-in-cheek way of announcing the availability of Coalition Space Operations: Exploring New Paths For Allied Partnership, the next in Nimble's series of public domain books related to Space Power. This reproduction of a thesis submitted to the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey,

General Index to the Manhattan District History

There is no single element that is a more useful part of a reference series than a general index. There is no one who knows the content of a publication

Amazon Halo: Many Questions!

After a week with it, I love my Amazon Halo Band, but I have many questions! Here are a few. I want to tell my doctors about it--is there a physician-facing website that I can point them to? How can mental health professionals work

History of the Mk 25 Warhead: Code Name DING DONG, Atomic Warheads for Air Defense

The marketplace for books about military history is crowded with an abundance of titles about every weapon system ever built, from trireme to Tiger tank, but, ironically, is almost deserted

The Pandemic Playbook from Nimble Public Domain

Playbook For Early Response To High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats And Biological Incidents In March 2020 POLITICO reported that after the Ebola outbreak in 2014, the Obama Administration's National Security

Rapid Heritage: An Accelerated Publishing Program for United States Space Force

The thriving print and digital publishing ecosystem around military history and strategy has historically played an important role for each of the United States armed services, not just in terms of professional education, but also by intriguing young people; inspiring public respect for our

Congratulations President Mrphlplsxb

Congratulations President Mrphlplsxb ..at this writing the outcome still hasn't been determined, although it's looking like Biden. Wish this wasn't happening at all? Thrill to what might have been by rehashing THE MUELLER MEMOS from Nimble Public Domain -- the first volume of "

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