What's Lost When Your Generation Doesn't Have a Voice in Long Form?

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There just isn't, there just isn't a long form model for young people. I mean, gordan peterson obviously did a huge book,. so maybe i'm not totally right, but thi do think like when, you when people are looking at roal models, there's not like, ah, there just thethe, the, the things people are aspiring to are not necessarily the medium of long form writing. Y, yo, you you don't see as many examples. As a professor, i think, who did a star professor, by the way, something people don't realize outside of academia, unrelated to is more sort of recent subject matter. He was a huge...

In this episode of Deep Questions we try something a little different: our first guest!

Bestselling author Ryan Holiday joins me to help answer reader questions, as well as more than a few queries from me. We cover a variety of topics, including his life as a writer living on a ranch, how he fosters discipline, the impact of our diminishing reading culture, and why everyone keeps trying to get me to move to Austin.

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