"I always sit down with just kind of a vague sense of like I want to write about this topic and then I'm usually surprised by where it goes" "When things that seemingly don't go together are connected. That's my favorite again back to that like the nerdy pathway the dopamine hit of like when I read a story over here"
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.