The ideal job

Yakov Fain: I would like to be able to afford to do only teaching and speaking. As of today, it wouldn't pay my bills and that's why I have to work on other projects. Ideally, I would like to be able to do learning, teaching, speaking, and writing. This does not pay the bills, unfortunately.

The same thing is also true with writing books, unless you author another Harry Potter book, of course. Software books are not something that you write for a living. I remember, maybe 15 years ago, David Flanagan wrote a bunch of good books. One day, I saw his blog where he stated that he couldn't write computer books for a living anymore. The minute the book is out, it goes onto all these pirate sites and people get it for free. People don't want to pay for books. David is a talented writer, but people don't want to pay for good content. What can you do?

Geertjan Wielenga: Do you think that books are still important in the tech field? People go to Stack...