I loved these two quotes:

What I’ve learned is that, more than a set of skills, entrepreneurship is a mindset. As Harvard Business Review has noted, it’s about an ability to thrive in uncertainty, and an openness to new experiences:

I’m convinced that this mindset is learned, not innate. Anyone can be entrepreneurial, but if you’ve been surrounded by adverse uncertainty, you’re more likely to find it stressful. If, on the other hand, you have plenty of examples of uncertainty working out well, you’re more likely to see it as an opportunity.

I also liked the link to the Wallet Exercise – have to try this sometime…

Learning to sort through online information on the current COVID-19 outbreak – an excellent resource from Mike Caufield on evaluating news online.

Can Packt Publishing be making any money?

Recently, I was looking for some books on developing desktop applications for Ubuntu. It seemed that Packt Publishing had the most recent titles, which was one of the criteria I was using for selecting the books. However, I noticed that many of them were available as E-books for $5, compared to a hard copy price of $50 or more. After my searching, I then saw numerous Packt ads highlighting the $5 price. How can they (or their authors) be making any money at that price? To me, this removes incentive to spend the effort to create a book of 300 pages or more to sell for $5 a copy. Am I missing something here?