9 Things I’ve Learned as a Published Author

Phil Simon
3 min readOct 31, 2020

In 2008, something inside me was brewing. After a decade of helping companies implement new tech, it had to come out.

It did.

Why New Systems Fail represented my first full-length text. Since that time, I’ve penned nine more texts with a new one coming soon. Time for some personal reflection on what I’ve learned.

Writing a book of substance is hard work.

Sure, it’s not difficult to turn a blog into a book. Ditto for writing 70-page texts. Writing what…

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Phil Simon

Keynote speaker, advisor, and award-winning author of 13 📗, most recently Low-Code/No-Code: Citizen Developers & the Surprising Future of Business Applications