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Relational Power Crowd-Sourcing Updates

Relational Power — February 2024 Crowd-Sourcing Update

January 27, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

Well, it’s been a whole year since I released Relational Power v1.21, which is the first “professional” edition of the book (although still incomplete). “Professional” means there was some serious editing of the first version, which had some flaws. I am writing an update here as the project is not dead. Far from it.

2023 was both the worst year of my life (the first half) and the best year of my life (the last half). In the first half, I had a small embolic stroke that made me wonder, at first, whether my creative life was over, and I found myself in some very challenging situations which I will pass on here.

In the second half, however: a miracle occurred: I moved to Ajijic Mexico (in retrospect, a move of desperation) and yet somehow, got extremely lucky in the community where I landed and started leading on-the-ground there …

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Relational Power v1.21 Release Notes

January 26, 2023 By marc Leave a Comment

Relational Power v1.21 was released today to all channels (Amazon, Gumroad, Web and Audiobook/Podcast). The notice was sent to this Circling Guide Newsletter with 1200 subscribers.

This release is a minor release in terms of the content, but a major release in terms of the audiobook. The previous audiobook version was okay in terms of the voice, but buggy in terms of the pauses.

A story here, in case you are interested

I spent close to a week researching the various text-to-speech services. The problem was finding one which had a human-like voice, wasn’t too pricey, could be programmed for pauses, and could take an SSML document as input containing the pauses.

You would think that would be a straightforward requirement, right? Well apparently not. It needed SSML input because I needed an automated process to produce an audiobook for each new release. Meaning the …

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Relational Power v1.20 Release Notes & Crowd-Sourcing Updates

January 11, 2023 By marc Leave a Comment

Relational Power v1.20 is being released today (1/11/2023) to all formats and announced to the community in this Circling Guide newsletter.  It’s also been released to audiobook on Apple podcasts (and hence listenable/downloadable to on any smart phone, I like Podcast Addict).

This is an important milestone for the project, the most important inflection point in the project since the first draft v1.00 was released in early December. The audio release was done using text-to-speech technology, and it’s really surprisingly good (not yet perfect). This fact alone ought to triple the book’s reach.

Equally importantly, however, I kept get on getting feedback that the introduction was awful (ouch). I finally “woke-up” and was able to re-write the introduction in a way which finally, I believe, works. Thus, v1.20 is the first commercially-viable (or professional) version of Relational Power. Woo-hoo!

At this point I am just standing back, …

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