The most important part of a piece is what the human decides to include in their piece aka taste yes and taste becomes the most important thing. To develop it for me what's been helpful is writing for rejection so for the last four or five years everything I've written has gone had to go through Ryan's filter and now my first drafts are much better. Having someone like Ryan who's like has great taste um having him give me feedback on stuff has helped me cultivate it, he says.
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.