Release the book we already released: every format from one source

Build v1.0.0 here, match it page by page to the 2018 PDF, then every format (print, screen, EPUB, Kindle) from the same build; Leanpub first, then Amazon; the licence is CC BY; the cover waits.

Decided by. Dinis, decisions 001 to 004

Where it comes from

Release the book we already released the whole argument (article)
Decision 001: The 2018 text is Creative Commons BY CC BY (decision)
Decision 002: Leanpub gets our own PDF, built here and matched to the 2018 one our own PDF (decision)
Decision 003: Every format from one source every format from one source (decision)
Decision 004: The cover waits the cover waits (decision)

What it answers in the 2018 book

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Where it goes

Chapter How this book was made, and what you made, part How this book was made, and what you made (drafting); topic How this book was made (the last part).

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: The repository holds the official versions; the vault holds the working versions, Co-written with Claude, credited, with the ratio shown; short and punchy; every paragraph knows what it is, A personal edition, assembled by an agent, paid for as it is read, Read, comment, decide: the loop that turns Dinis's decisions into versions, An article is how to brief an agent, and the roles keep their names, One board for the work, one inventory of everything unfinished, Start from the storyline, as storyboards drawn by code, Everything we do here becomes a graph: ideas as nodes, provenance as edges, state on every node, The name: Generation ZX Developers (GenAI Startup Edition), A hands-on part, dated 2026 and renewed each year, Do the book in release mode: a whole release candidate from the first list, then rounds, then the next candidate, After rc1, nothing enters the book without a hearing: an advocate, a cutter, the readers, a checker, the editor, and Dinis decides, Every verdict is recorded with its reason, and a general reason becomes a precedent that decides the next case without a hearing, A release candidate's working copy is in the vault; the site renders a frozen snapshot of it, marked, never official, The book is measured by how many companies are created from it, and builds a community of the people who tell us, The book is 200 printed pages or more; short and punchy stays the rule for chapters, not for the book, A change decided by precedent goes on a list Dinis can overturn, and Dinis reads the diffs of the book, The hands-on part is inside the book, dated, in the release candidate.

Node idea:release-v1-again in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.