Billy Oppenheimer is a researcher for Ryan Holiday. He is also known for his viral long-form tweets and Six at 6 on Sunday newsletter. Billy is insatiably curious. He is a master at drawing lessons from anecdotes from the worlds of sports, music, comedy, business, and more. He joins the show to discuss how to cultivate good taste, whether everything is a remix, why he learns through introjection, and a whole lot more. Important Links:

Six at 6 on Sunday
Billy's Twitter
Billy's website
Our episodes with David Senra (1, 2)
'A Bicycle of the Mind' - Steve Jobs on the Computer
Our episode with Edward Rooster
To His Coy Mistress; by Andrew Marvell
Kubla Khan; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Show Notes:

Focus on doing the thing
SIX at 6's origin story
Learning through introjection
Developing taste & cultivating curiosity
"People don't have ideas, ideas have people"
How Billy practices his scales
Fiction vs non-fiction
Repetition, repetition, repetition
Should we study more failures?
Process compounds
"Care, but don't care too much"
Has anyone succeeded without persistence?
Conceptual ancestors
Everything's a remix
Taste, tools, markets & feedback
Finding your pain points
MUCH more!

Books Mentioned:

Trust Me, I'm Lying; by Ryan Holiday
Psychology of Money; by Morgan Housel
Atomic Habits; by James Clear
The Immortality Key : The Secret History of the Religion with No Name; by Brian C. Muraresku
Reality Hunger; by David Shields
The Power of Myth; by Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
Cloud Atlas; by David Mitchell
The Great Gatsby; by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Da Vinci Code; by Dan Brown

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Micro Experiments: Word Search and Other Minimal Games

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