RT David Perell Clips: Noah Hawley on why so much of Hollywood feels familiar: "Hollywood is a place where people are always running to where lightnin...

RT David Perell Clips: Noah Hawley on why movies and TV are built differently: "I always look at the structure of a movie as a pyramid. At the base, y...

RT David Perell Clips: "Horror produces the biggest emotion, fear, for the least amount of money because it's relying on your imagination to do most o...

RT David Perell Clips: Noah Hawley created Fargo, Legion, and Alien: Earth. Here are his three keys to success: 1. Be good enough to get in the room (...

RT David Perell Clips: Why Backrooms is crushing it at the box office: "What's interesting about [horror] is that it's in many ways the most cinematic...

RT David Perell Clips: Great stories are born of questions: What are Americans so afraid of? How can decency win against cynicism? If you can't agree ...

RT David Perell Clips: "When you have a lot of output, you need a lot of input." Noah Hawley created Fargo, Legion, and Alien: Earth, and has written ...

RT David Perell Clips: Many writers will tell you to "write for yourself." Mitch Albom has sold over 40 million books, and he writes 98% for readers, ...

RT David Perell Clips: "So much of writing, especially nonfiction, is actually just reporting. That's still my favorite. It's like a treasure hunt. I ...

RT David Perell Clips: At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, everyone was writing about Carl Lewis. Mitch Albom found a better story: a man and his father. ...

RT David Perell Clips: Mitch Albom has sold 40 million books and written deeply moving stories like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet ...

Highlights from the interview: 1) Your main character has to transform. 2) Doesn't matter how interesting the character is: nobody wants to read 300 p...

RT David Perell Clips: Mitch Albom knew a rabbi who recorded a tape before his death. Nobody heard the tape until his funeral, where he said: "My frie...

RT The Cultural Tutor: The show’s been announced, so now I want to share the full pitch we're giving to investors. Normally this kind of thing is kep...

RT David Perell Clips: We wince at the smell of ChatGPT-breath in writing, but most AI-generated writing is better than academic or bureaucratic langu...

RT The Cultural Tutor: The second photo is from a "stunning" and "beautifully presented" new apartment building in London. Backrooms (and similar film...

RT David Perell Clips: We read with our ears, so if a reader can't sound out your prose, they won't latch on. Steven Pinker explains how you can make ...

RT David Perell Clips: Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller: they were not writers, but wrote beautiful prose. Steven Pinker has spent o...

RT The Cultural Tutor: If you live in a city with lots of highrises then you’ll spend between six and eighteen months of your life either in elevator...

RT David Perell Clips: Our obsession with the news distorts our reality and "industrializes" our inner lives. Author and philosopher Alain de Botton e...

RT Paul Graham: If Steve Jobs were still alive, he would have the moral authority to face and maybe even to solve this problem. But I doubt anyone in ...

Some highlights from the interview: 1) "The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less." 2) "Reverence is about constantly asking yourself: ...

RT David Perell Clips: People are remarkably good at pointing to what feels off, and remarkably bad at proposing a solution. Filmmaker David Gelb comp...

RT David Perell Clips: Will AI ever write a great novel? Maria Popova says: "AI will never write the great American or French poem because it hasn't s...

RT Lulu Cheng Meservey: A dozen words of framing made people describe a Monet as “garbage” that was “inferior” to the original How you present a l...

RT Steven Strogatz: I just discovered this YouTube channel by @david_perell. Very enjoyable and enlightening! If you love writing and thinking, you ar...

RT BeyoncéIsAGenius: If you think I spent the last hour watching this, you're are correct. What a beautiful mind. Great discussion.

Highlights from our conversation: • “The history of our species shows a pattern of mistaking the limits of the known for the limits of the knowable....

RT David Perell Clips: "Memoir is just the Instagram version of the diary." Until the 19th century, people didn't write their own memoirs. Somebody el...

RT David Perell Clips: Poetry and science have been pitted against each other. Liberal arts vs. STEM. Wordcels vs. shape rotators. But why should they...

RT David Perell Clips: "I'd rather have an ordinary character in extraordinary circumstances." Novelist Yann Martel on why he doesn't obsess over craf...

RT David Perell Clips: Here's one signature of "AI voice" that's easy to fix: every sentence is the same length. Short sentences. Like this one. Or th...

RT David Perell Clips: "Facts only go so far. You want story." Some of the most enduring narratives in human history have no historical records behind...

RT David Perell Clips: "Artists are solitary agents." They have no constituency, no obligation, no boss. Novelist Yann Martel explains why that matter...

RT David Perell Clips: The better AI writing gets, the less we'll want to read it. Life of Pi author Yann Martel explains why: 1) AI Inflation "Once y...

RT David Perell Clips: The tortoise and the hare. The three little pigs. Animal Farm. Some of the most memorable stories in human history involve anim...

RT David Perell Clips: Anne Lamott's storytelling formula: ABDCE 1) Action: something has to happen. Make the audience curious enough to stay. 2) Back...

RT David Perell Clips: What makes for a good ending? Whether it's a movie, or a book, Anne Lamott looks for the following elements: “The ending makes...

RT David Perell Clips: "I don't want to work. I don't want to dissect your dialogue. I don't want to wait it out and see if you're going to get to the...

RT David Perell Clips: "The point is not to try harder, it's to resist less." Good advice for writing, good advice for life. But most people do the op...

RT amywojsbu: Love this advice.

Some highlights from the interview: 1) "The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less." 2) "Reverence is about constantly asking yourself: ...

RT David Perell Clips: "Write the ending first." Best-selling children's book author Tish Rabe spent years in the Sesame Street writers' room, where t...

RT FischerKing: Baseball is the American pastime - and its root in healthy autism. Boys don’t just go through hitting, sliding and throwing - they ge...

RT John Fio: The Sphere is probably the most important piece of architecture in the last hundred years. It’s what the VR trade was trying to be but m...

RT 🕊️: I started writing by hand last year and i will not stop. it feels stupid for about a week, your hand cramps, you write like a child, you fe...

RT a16z: Amazing idea. It almost happened. @pmarca @david_perell

RT Jash Dholani: there are no right angles in nature, but modern design, from skyscrapers to phones to contemporary art, is full of right angles. this...

RT Jash Dholani: Love this idea from David Perell (@david_perell): "The right angle-ization of culture"

My favorite quotes from this interview with Wright Thompson: - Profiles are about figuring out what is a central complication of somebody's life and h...