David Perell—Write to Find Yourself (EP.119)

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:

• Website: https://perell.com/
• Writing School: https://writeofpassage.school/
• Friday Finds Links: https://perell.com/friday-finds-links/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/david_perell

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