[pieterhg]

I agree and I've mentioned this in the freely readable intro (to make sure people see that before spending money on a book):

  Then there's the entire survivorship bias, it assumes that what worked for me will work for you. But it probably won't. Because time has already changed and I will never be able to put on to paper all the variables that have attributed to things than went successful for me. I really don't like to give people false promises. Which is what most other books do. No, this book won't make you successful. That's all up to you.

I'm a strong believer that the majority of success is luck and environment (like upbringing). There's a minority which is attributable to persistence (e.g. forcing luck by continuously trying) and specific techniques (e.g. for me, DIY'ing everything).

Therefore, the only thing this book can offer is 1) learn to be more persistent and 2) specific techniques that MAY work in this current time of indie startups.

I think no static framework will work for anything because the environment rapidly changes, especially in tech. I read a lot of @patio11's posts starting out. And mixed those with my own insights to build stuff. In the same sense as this book I think, only part of @patio11's content was applicable.