Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “Words on a page have infinite patience” – David Perell
  • Once you start publishing your ideas online, they work for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Write about what’s uniquely interesting to you. Embrace your weirdness. 
  • “Be different—be unlike everybody else. Take your weird and make it weirder.” – David Perell
  • “As a writer, see your weirdness, find the beauty in it, and then amplify it” – David Perell
• “The demand for high-quality information is HUGE—it’s global. We’ll never be able to fathom the scale of the internet—BILLIONS of people … The world is starving for people who can write well about interesting ideas that other people aren’t writing about.” – David Perell
• Most of the writing process happens away from the computer
  • To further facilitate this, improve your idea-capturing methods; David highly recommends the Otter app, which converts voice to text
• “When you’re able to teach, inform, and entertain yourself, you’re able to teach, inform, and entertain others” – David Perell

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David Perell teaches an online writing course called Write of Passage, and runs a weekly newsletter with over 17,000 subscribers. Here’s why he thinks everyone should write, and how to build a personal monopoly.