I read first thing every day that's I try to block out like an hour every morning and then I try to look for just like pockets throughout the day where I can sneak in some reading but as far as Like the actual reading process um I like physical books I like to have like a pen in hand and I'm just kind of like on a hunt for good stories and quotes and that feeling of this is exciting. Another thing I do is like I'll write in the margin a question corresponding to what the the story or the passage is talking about because I find like when I go back through it it went this for some reason the question sparks what's going on at that point in
Billy Oppenheimer is a writer. He is also the research assistant for Ryan Holiday.
In this conversation, we spoke about the future of AI and writing, playing the long game, why everything is a remix, what he learned driving Robert Greene from the airport, and why the work is the win.