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#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How to Write an Essay

i started by creating a blog which felt manageable. And so that's what i did. I watched you two vidios and figured out how to put together a very simple blog. And i start to write and to take it seriously and to treat it as a job. It felt really good to have a job to do other than just being a patient. About two weeks later, after this blog had been circulated and had racked up a significant number of views, i received a phone call from an editor at the new york times asking me if i might want to write an essay.And i paused and very politely thanked her and told her that i wasn't interested in writing an essay.

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