i like your idea of considering yourself a citizen of the internet. It's really a lot easier to change your digital neighborhood than it is to change your physical one. The leverage is inherent in this system, the ability to do business with people you've never met in real life. I believe that there are a hundred thousand kids like this in the world right now, who are on the internet and they feel like school isn't working for them. And i want to get five to ten % of them in right of passage in a community. Id love me said, just sort of launchin this program for you to make friends but also have no idea about what you're going to say
David Perell is prolific writer and online educator, who runs a writing school called “Write of Passage”. David also hosts the “The North Star Podcast” featuring interviews with writers, athletes, and entrepreneurs. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Origins of “Write of Passage”
- Writing leads to thinking
- David’s ever expanding portfolio
- Live the life that you teach
- Applying lessons from Disneyland to a writing course
- Four Seasons of writing education
- Ana’s success with David’s course
- Writing as a career transition
- Average course cohort age
- Building a personal monopoly
- Advice for an aspiring creator
- Dive into the work of the people you admire
- Managing fear of creating in public
- The network age
- Building a product for high-schoolers
- Finding your tribe on the internet
- Going against the trend with long-form essays
- Checklists and prescriptions
- The cover band strategy for investing
- Building an internet native education system
- Schools stifling creativity
- The Never-Ending Now
Books Mentioned:
- Zero to One; by Peter Thiel
- One Summer: America, 1927; by Bill Bryson
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- Invest Like the Best; by Jim O'Shaughnessy