A Personalized Career Guide
When I shared my first book, “Dungeons & Qubits: an Adventurer’s Tale Beyond the Quantum Computing Tutorials,” on June 6, 2021, I simply uploaded the PDF to Google Drive and posted the link everywhere I could. I didn’t anticipate any degree of popularity, so I gave zero thought to analytics, even the most basic one: the number of downloads. Hopefully, for a free book, at least a few people would read it. And, preferably, one or two people might even enjoy it. Because I had committed myself to enjoying the writing process, those metrics would’ve been sufficient.
A New Home
I quickly realized that people were reading it. Some people messaged me about it, other people shared it, and a few people even wrote articles about it. But, now I had a dilemma: I had no idea how many people were reading it that weren’t doing any of those things. I could not have had less analytics on the file.
So, I started using a URL shortener which at least tracked clicks. “Dungeons & Qubits” had already been out for a while, and yet I somehow tracked hundreds of clicks. That’s pretty shocking. What could the original number have been?
Also, I recently uploaded “Dungeons & Qubits” as a document on LinkedIn. I merely wanted to see what analytics the social…
