Dina Lovinsky is a Russian-born, SF-based writer. She is also the ghostwriter of the recent NYT and WSJ bestseller Tony Fadell’s, Build - An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.

This is a fun episode.  

We discuss 

• Dina discusses being born in St Petersburg, Russia before moving to the US and growing up in Boston.
• Being conditioned by her parents with a sense of invincibility. 
• She discusses her parent's experience of being Refusniks in Soviet-period Russia.
• Her father's experience working for the Mafia.
• She describes her Star Trek life lesson and developing her superpower to never blame others for how she feels.
• We discuss how two scientists produced a child with a talent for the arts and English. 
• Dina explains how she developed her love of reading and developing her curiosity.
• She discusses her school life and not working hard. 
• Dina explains how her path led her to San Francisco to a job in publishing before moving into product management in tech startups. 
• She explains how her focus shifted to writing all content for the companies she worked. 
• We discussed how she developed her copywriting skills.
• Dina explains her approach to writing, her disorganization, and procrastination.
• Dina describes her work with Tony Fadell and how she came to ghost-write his book Build, 
• She explains how she and Tony arrived at the structure and wrote the book during the pandemic.
• Dina describes how people can use the book as a mentor in a box. 
• We discuss the emergence of AI and the impact and threat to writers 
• Dina describes her hopes for the next ten years
• She answers the quick-fire questions

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 Build - An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.

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