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Doug's zine, titled "CW-PUB-001 Field Notes on Productive Friction," has sold out, with a limited run of 50 physical copies. There will be no reprints. The success of the zine has been noted on the Cognitive Wallpaper website, hinting at future zines, although specifics are yet to be decided. The zine was shipped to various countries including the USA, Canada, and Europe, with unexpectedly high postage costs to Europe.
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Doug received the test print of his first zine, Field Notes on Productive Friction, after returning from Lisbon. He found the print to be of high quality, with only minor tweaks needed for the final version, and has already sold 27 of the limited 50 copies.
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I woke up early this morning and an idea for a second zine just popped fully-formed into my head. It's weird how the subconscious works.
After a little bit of back-and-forth with my Little Robot Friend, I'm thinking of framing it as a "field guide for designing around the mind we actually have". That's in contrast to the ultra-rational one that we'll never achieve, nor would we actually want anyway.
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Putting together a zine is harder than expected because everything must be correct before printing, unlike web publishing where mistakes can be fixed after the fact. The author notes their usual publishing flow includes a fixable "oh shit" moment, but printed matter offers no such safety net.
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The author reflects on using mindmaps for past projects and estimates their zine will be about 6,800 words. They decide to follow Warren Ellis's advice to create a deliberately bad first draft to stop overthinking.