Why did I name the course "Amber Book"?
I once received a grant from the Acoustical Society of America to write a booklet titled, "The Acoustics of Multifamily Housing." I made the cover of the book solid orange so that architects could find the book's thin bright orange spine on their shelf on the rare occasions when they needed to access that esoteric reference. No one called it by its full name, but rather by its subtitle "The Orange Book." (Free copy of that here).
When naming this ARE prep effort, I started with that model, branding off a color that's also something else (like a food, or a mineral) so it would be more memorable. So "Amber Book" because it fit that model, seemed memorable, and I liked the sound of it.
Then later, I created Olive Book for SAT prep, not because I like olives, but because they are the only food I LOATHE. Many people have strong feelings one way or another about olives, and it's also a color, so that made sense to me.
My plan was to name the next animated course, should it come, Copper Book, for the same reasons. Thoughts? Ideas for better alternatives?
People often ask me about the name, expecting it to be scandalous (ex-girlfriend's name) or otherwise compelling. . . When I tell folks the true origin story they universally look disappointed, or bored. So for a while I pretended like the origin story was a trade secret, and that secretiveness seemed to tickle people, but it wasn't me to pretend that it was a secret when in reality I was just hiding the banality of the narrative. So I started telling the true story again, and the disappointed faces returned.
See, now even you're bored.
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