How to Teach Millions of People with Your Blog | Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok

How to Teach Millions of People with Your Blog | Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok | How I Write Podcast

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For the past 20 years, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have run the world’s largest economics blog. This is the story of how they publish every day, generate ideas when they’re stuck, and plan to teach millions of people the basics of supply & demand.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:34 Reaching 10,000 visitors
00:01:25 Genesis of Marginal Revolution
00:04:32 Tyler and Alex's best read post
00:07:00 Moments of "wow"
00:09:20 What makes Alex a great textbook writer
00:09:40 How Tyler and Alex are different
00:10:58 Stories vs Reality
00:12:00 Process for editing and improving textbooks
00:15:30 How Tyler and Alex create KZbin videos
00:18:50 Intellectual interest in India
00:20:00 KZbin subtitles dual-learning process (language and economics)
00:21:00 The process of removing ideas
00:22:30 Binding constraints for success of Marginal Revolution
00:26:00 Work habits as a writer
00:28:30 How Tyler and Alex's writing has changed
00:31:50 Tyler's modes of writing
00:32:30 High context vs low context
00:36:15 Imitation and innovation
00:37:34 Writing from conversations
00:39:50 Cold emails
00:44:25 How TV and movies impact Tyler and Alex's writing
00:50:00 What kind of blog posts lead to most inbound
00:52:45 Be interesting and timely
00:54:10 How to tell the difference between Tyler and Alex
00:56:00 Alex's TED talk
00:57:30 The internet
00:59:00 Marginal Revolution as a launching pad
00:59:40 Ego and Writing
01:03:30 What makes Marginal Revolution worthwhile
SPEAKER LINKS:
Tyler + Alex's newsletter: marginalrevolution.com
Tyler's website: tylercowen.com
Alex's website: alextabarrok.com
Tyler's Twitter: / tylercowen
Alex's Twitter: / atabarrok
Alex's website: alextabarrok.com
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ABOUT THE HOST:
I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible.

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@DavidPerellChannel 8 ай бұрын

Tyler Cowen has been writing Marginal Revolution with Alex Tabarrok for the past 20 years, and it’s grown into one of the world’s largest economics blogs. Here are some lessons I've learned from him about writing: 1. You can make a career out of being curious. 2. Stay a little unpredictable with what you write about. 3. There’s no limit to the reach your writing can have online. When Tyler + Alex started Marginal Revolution, they originally thought they'd have ~5,000 readers (mostly academics who wanted something more interesting). 4. GPT gives computers a facility with words that they have had with numbers for a long time. 5. Most of the work that needs to be done are small steps toward a much better world. 6. The returns to thick skin are going up. 7. Outlining is an excuse to avoid writing. Don’t outline. Just write. Tyler prefers to get straight to working out the problems, which happens better in prose than bullet points. 8. Write every day: “Every day. Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, my birthday, I don’t care. Do it. No exceptions. If you write every day, you don’t even have to worry about how much you’ve written. It’s going to add up.” 9. The most highly motivated people are prisoners of their passions. 10. Travel to obscure places. “I run around the world like a crazy man, trying to talk to as many different, interesting people as I can." 11. Excellence should be a driving force of what you do.Writers tend to put more pressure on themselves as their audience grows. They get timid and self-censor. But you have to resist that. You know you're doing it right if you're giggling. 12. The weird is normal and the normal is weird: "It’s the weird that’s truly normal. It’s how people actually are - what they really care about." 13. Be skeptical of tidy stories. There's a tendency to fit all facts into the format of a memorable narrative, even though reality is usually more complex. 14. Online learning is a two-way exchange. Read and write. It's a dialogue, not a monologue. 15. When considering a writer's potential for success, most people under-value stamina. 16. If you consistently make smart content on the Internet, in whatever form, there is an audience for it. To level-up your writing by listening to other episodes, click here: writeofpassage.school/how-i-write/

@JumpingCow 8 ай бұрын

I just love the enthusiasm of both Tyler and Alex. It is infectious.

@conformist 8 ай бұрын

probably one of the best interviews with tyler cowen. it was a genius move to also invite alex, it made tyler so much more animated as a person. great work david, very much enjoyed this!

@montywatson1648 8 ай бұрын

These are guys I want “in my head” and shaping me on a regular basis, which I’ve done for years, to my great benefit. Thank you David, Alex and Tyler!

@deveshbajaj3828 8 ай бұрын

As a relatively new reader of Marginal Revolution, I found this conversation extremely interesting and informative

@Bysisa 8 ай бұрын

Great video David. I believe as you write more, you discover more of yourself.

@albertorg3694 8 ай бұрын

Every aspiring (online) writer should watch this podcast. Congrats David, amazing value!

@ninovizi 8 ай бұрын

the sinergy between david and tyler is admirable

@DavidPerellChannel 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely love that guy

@salimmalibari 8 ай бұрын

I really liked your work, i was searching for you 2days ago 🙃 and i found that 1year you didnt upload, but seems this a great comeback ... don't stop your original insights because they are very helpful