No I have actually never read Julian Assange's work. But I'll have to give it a look when I'm approaching certain chapters of my book.
It's actually a review by Julian Assange of a book by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. I just thought that Assange's review was well written.
Oh, I thought you were referring to the book plugged in his bio: Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet.
Attempting to write a book is the hardest thing I've ever tried to do. I have no idea how so many books exist! I'm almost done a good version of the first chapter and I have a solid concept and rough outline for the entire book. I feel like once one chapter is done that will be a significant hump to have gotten over. We'll see. Writing a book is a alien experience compared to writing blog posts. It is really hard to explore interesting concepts and then keep it locked up in your head and harddrive. In the second half of 2013 I should be exploring some ways to bridge the worlds - perhaps by writing up a series of blog posts based on a completed chapter or something like that.
I look forward to the blog posts and the book. I imagine it's extremely difficult to write a book, yet alone a good one. I'm excited to read it Cadell, good luck.