You know him as the CEO of OpenAI — but did you know that Sam Altman is an avid writer?

As one of today’s most successful entrepreneurs, Sam champions the tremendous value of writing: how it clarifies your thinking, expands your ideas, and levels-up your life in every sense, both personally and professionally. Plus, he has a love for the creative. (Have you ever met someone who can recite Percy Bysshe Shelley poems from memory? Well, Sam can.)

In this episode, we discuss how Sam uses ChatGPT in his daily life; how LLMs are changing the future of writing; what it means to be a novelist in the age of technology; and Sam’s best-learned writing lessons from Paul Graham. If you want to learn how the king of ChatGPT writes, this episode is for you.

SPEAKER LINKS:

Website: https://openai.com/

Blog: https://blog.samaltman.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sama

WRITE OF PASSAGE:

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PODCAST LINKS:

Website: https://writeofpassage.school/how-i-write/

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