Equipment, Outlines, and the New Year

I’ve spent the past few months building a device that isolates the space between my mouth and the microphone, blocks external sound, and ensures high quality voice recording. There’s nothing on the market like it, perhaps because it’s so damned heavy...

More beta readers, more edits

After about a month, I have now incorporated another round of beta reader feedback. I have to have some mechanism of motivating me to make progress, and forcing myself to have others read it at a modest expense is just the right motivation to make good progress. Here...

Progress

The following is the result of some concerted effort over a few evenings of revision, when the tasks for my “day job” are done. We’re getting there. Ignore the impenetrably indecipherable chapter titles. It’s all part of the plan (and evidence...

Day job returns

I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that yesterday I received notice of a revision request for a big paper I’ve been working on at a top strategic management journal. This is something that I worked on for three years before the initial...

Prototypes of sound-dampening setup

It ain’t pretty, but here are some of the ideas I’ve been kicking around to muffle/eliminate extraneous noise while I am recording. First, we have the headgear. Not sure this is gonna fly. It’s really hot inside there—this is foam mattress topper material. Then, there...