How I Under-Engineered my Last Coding Book (Write A Book For Free)

18 Aug 2026 #bookwriting

Being a coder, it’s easy to get distracted building a complex pipeline to write a book.

Like Chris who under-engineered his book, I used a simple approach for Street-Smart Coding Manifesto:

1. Outline each chapter idea on post-it notes.
2. Write with Google Docs.
3. Share a copy with my beta-readers.
4. Import the master file on Reedsy.
5. Et voila!

Like building a blogging engine instead of blogging, researching the best ax won’t get a tree chopped.