The coolest one was when I wrote a thread on Rick Rubin in October of last year. He hadn't yet done like the podcast tour but there was a few out there so I read that book and then like listened to him on a bunch of Podcasts. A couple days later she texted me and said hey Rick just had some time opening up uh could you jump on a zoom call? So I had a call with them just kind of tell me what what he wants to do I don't know if I can speak to it but um I'm maybe like helping him with with some stuff. It wouldn't have happened without putting the work out and I couldn't have sent him my
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.