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Where do you find the best content?

Here are my recommendations:

• @TheBrowser
• @fermatslibrary
• @MargRev
• PBS Documentaries on YouTube
• The footnotes of my favorite books

General rule: If I find a writer I like, I read their favorite books.

Okay... your turn.
@TheBrowser @fermatslibrary @MargRev Here are my favorite links ever.

Books, articles, podcasts, and videos. And every link has a short little summary.

A whole weekend worth of entertainment.

perell.com/recommendation…
@TheBrowser @fermatslibrary @MargRev Here's a list of my favorite documentaries on YouTube.

"Shock of the New" is my favorite one.

It's an 8-part series about art history from 1870-1970.

@TheBrowser @fermatslibrary @MargRev I enjoyed this HBO documentary about the 2008 Financial Crisis.

The list of people interviewed is stellar:

- Barack Obama
- Warren Buffett
- George Bush
- Bethany McLean
- Ben Bernanke
- Timothy Geithner

(h/t @CantHardyWait)

@TheBrowser @fermatslibrary @MargRev @CantHardyWait I've watched basically every video from @wendoverpro.

If you're a travel geek, you'll love this channel.

Each video is 10-15 minutes long.

@TheBrowser @fermatslibrary @MargRev @CantHardyWait @wendoverpro Here's an excellent series about billion-dollar bankruptcies in America.

- PanAm
- TWA
- Premier Cruise Lines
- General Motors

@TheBrowser @fermatslibrary @MargRev @CantHardyWait @wendoverpro Here's another epic series about art history.

The 13-part series is hosted by Kenneth Clark and covers the history of Western art, architecture, and philosophy since the Dark Ages.

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Question I can’t stop thinking about...

What does Y-Combinator for writers look like?

By the end of next year, my online writing course will likely have more than 1,000 graduates.

If writing is as important as I think it is, that network will be *incredibly* valuable.
As luck would have it, the network is extra valuable because of the way I teach writing.

Write of Passage is a collaborative experience.

Social accountability and student-to-student feedback are the core features of the student experience.

Fuel for deep relationships.
Writing online is like weightlifting.

Starting is the hardest part.

But once you feel the positive benefits, you’re hooked forever.

Best of all... lifelong commitment is exactly what a GLOBAL writing group needs to thrive.

Writing is the ultimate infinite game.
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ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌
@david_perell
Let’s talk about freedom.

Nobody writes about it better than U.S. Senator @BenSasse.

Thread.
Production vs. Consumption:

“There is nothing more important we can do for our young than convince them that production is more satisfying than consumption.

A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in work, not freedom from work, even when work might hurt.”
Reminds me of these words from Seth Godin:

“Accountability is done to you. It’s done by the industrial system, by those that want to create blame.

Responsibility is done by you. It’s voluntary. You can take as much of it as you want.”
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@david_perell
Don't get distracted by the internet.

Boom.

That's 90% of what you need to know about how to be more productive.
Counterintuitively, information abundance makes it HARD to produce things.

Even though it's never been easier to make something, endless distraction stops us from creating anything at all.

Focus is a competitive edge.
“Sometimes success is 3% brains and 97% not getting distracted by the internet.”

— @ShaneAParrish
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