It’s the start of 2024 and to celebrate I thought I’d run through some of the best lessons I’ve picked up over the last 12 months.

This past year has had over 20 episodes produced so there was a lot to choose from but I ended up settling on 8 insights from some of my favorite conversations both inside and outside of the podcast.

Expect to learn how Tim Ferriss sets an extremely high/low quality bar, why Marc Andreessen uses a barbell approach to consume information, Kevin Kelly’s reason to be the only (not the best), how Riva Tez paints with words, why The Cultural Tutor won’t read anything from the past 50 years, how Tyler Cowen brings joy to his work, my thoughts on artificial intelligence, and much more…

WRITE OF PASSAGE:
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:45 Tim Ferriss
00:08:30 Kevin Kelly
00:17:48 Cultural Tutor
00:25:02 Marc Andreessen
00:29:00 Shiny Dime Challenge
00:30:20 Riva Tez
00:36:08 Steven Pressfield
00:42:10 Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok
00:45:58 Ava Huang
00:50:00 Core Ideas

PODCAST LINKS:
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DjMSbo...

ABOUT THE HOST:
I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible.