
#141 Ryan Holiday's Secret Weapon - Billy Oppenheimer on growing in Philadelphia, almost going to law school, role models, working with Ryan Holiday, his research process, the notecard system, skiing, and the downsides to fame
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
The Importance of Synthesis in Writing
Working for Ryan is like your version of actually working in banking right or lawyer except it's aligned with the life you actually want to live yeah. Everything I've written for four or five years now has had to go through Ryan's filter so when I write a draft of anything he marked he like goes through and is like it's not there yet he'll tell me why and then I have to like keep reworking it until it's ready. "This is the huge upside of writing online if you can synthesize ad taste or discernment to ideas you can add a lot of value for people"
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