Networks play a crucial role both personally and globally. At a personal level, the people in our lives can influence the outcomes we experience, whether positive or negative, acting as leading indicators. Networks operate as compounding loops where good people attract more good people and vice versa. On a global scale, progress can be limited when talented individuals are unable to find their optimal roles. Enhancing the allocation of talent, through networks, could significantly boost global GDP and overall progress. Therefore, focusing on building and leveraging networks is essential for driving personal growth and global advancement.
David Perell is prolific writer and online educator, who runs a writing school called “Write of Passage”. David also hosts the “The North Star Podcast” featuring interviews with writers, athletes, and entrepreneurs. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Origins of “Write of Passage”
- Writing leads to thinking
- David’s ever expanding portfolio
- Live the life that you teach
- Applying lessons from Disneyland to a writing course
- Four Seasons of writing education
- Ana’s success with David’s course
- Writing as a career transition
- Average course cohort age
- Building a personal monopoly
- Advice for an aspiring creator
- Dive into the work of the people you admire
- Managing fear of creating in public
- The network age
- Building a product for high-schoolers
- Finding your tribe on the internet
- Going against the trend with long-form essays
- Checklists and prescriptions
- The cover band strategy for investing
- Building an internet native education system
- Schools stifling creativity
- The Never-Ending Now
Books Mentioned:
- Zero to One; by Peter Thiel
- One Summer: America, 1927; by Bill Bryson
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- Invest Like the Best; by Jim O'Shaughnessy