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“it wasn't contrarianism in the sense of you thought this but it's the opposite. Instead it's you don't know anything about this. But once you…”
“it's contrarianism but it's not it's different than I think takeism which you get a lot online especially in click culture”
“Like one, there's this there's a straw I think what now has become a straw man, this like hustle culture.”
“Whereas I actually see the opposite. Everyone is saying we're too overloaded, like we should do less stuff, like me time, find yourself.”
“the credentialing required to be covered by the sort of elite mainstream publications. It's a very real thing.”
“One of the best-selling nonfiction writers of this generation.”
“I think when people ask me what do you do? If I actually answered I'm a writer, I think it's actually probably higher prestige in…”
“it's this like blood sport intellectual competition to publish incredibly hard stuff in really competitive venues”
“you have to for remote to succeed, it has to be accompanied by really rethinking and getting much more smart and structured about how just…”
“Like we just rock and roll back and forth, grab people, messages, email, Slack.”
“when you when you distribute the means of production for media, so now many more people have access to means of production for a certain…”
“I think it's going to consolidate in the the sort of these small to medium-sized firms.”
“So we have Bill Simmons on one side of this. Build the Ringer, sell it for 200 million dollars.”
“Like Bill Simmons is probably happy doing that, but Tim would be miserable and Simmons would be miserable if he was Tim.”
“the the task of productivity was put onto the individual. It was made personal.”
“is left to the individuals just to kind of figure out, that builds resentment”
“Well, it's very seasonal which I think is actually important because that's a model I think should be more broadly adopted, but only some professions…”
“So my summer schedule is my ideal schedule.”
“people got to these sort of absurd states where like all they were doing was Zoom 8 hours a day”
“And so, now 5 minutes becomes 30 minutes.”
“you get just as much credit for having done the thing”
“I get the credit for having been a Stanford Business School professor.”
“media became mainstream, I used to get a lot of like, how can you possibly write about something that you don't heavily use?”
“And then the third one I get which is just accurate is you're a dude and especially like you don't really fully understand not being…”
“Like to me, I see uh media entrepreneur. Media mogul.”
“You have a head start. You're in the top 1/2 of 1% of people working on this.”
“right now I have a half day rule. One half day a week. It has to fit in that.”
“And my goal down the line is to make that one day a week.”