Spent two hours with Marc Andreessen, who gave me a masterclass on how to think, learn, read, research, and write. Here's what I learned: 1. Read, read, read... then read some more. 2. Many of your best ideas will emerge in fits of rage or frustration. Channel the fury. Smash the keyboard. Lean into the passion. Torch the page with your energy. 3. Marc doesn't have much of a formal writing process. He thinks and thinks, and when epiphany strikes, he hammers out an outline as fast as possible to get his ideas on paper. Then, he turns it into a full article. 4. Marc's motto for writing and thinking: "Strong views, weakly held." Put yourself out there, but stay on the hunt for dissenting opinions from smart and respectful people. 5. Online writing tolerates and even encourages stylistic idiosyncrasies that traditional publishing would not accommodate. Lean into them. 6. The world is awash in bad content. You need to punch through. Snappy one-liners and genuine conviction are two ways to do that. 7. Marc's been reading online for as long as anybody on the planet, and the biggest thing that's surprised him is how political the Internet's become. Something changed between ~2013-2015. The Internet was once an escape from political debates. Now it's a hotbed of them. 8. Writing software is halfway between writing a novel and building a bridge. 9. Play around with communication tools. Push the limits. Doesn't matter what the rules are. When Marc felt constrained by Twitter's 140-character limit, he started replying to his own tweets and invented the Twitter thread. 10. On the quest for good ideas, surround yourself with "lateral thinkers" who can't help but come up with variant perspectives on everything they see. They won't always be right, but they always challenge your thinking. 11. Media formats are cyclical. Nietzsche wrote in aphorisms and Twitter is aphorisms-as-a-service. Hip-hop brought back poetry. Montaigne pioneered the essay format and blogs brought them back into vogue. 12. People should write more manifestos. 13. Marc's nomination for the best living American novelist: James Ellroy. 14. GPT has revealed how much writing is pure pablum. Bland, lifeless, uninsightful, unoffensive, and not worth the price of the ink it was printed with. 15. "With GPT, every writer now has a writing partner who can do an infinite amount of grunt work without complaining." 16. "ChatGPT plagiarism is a complete non-issue. If you can't out-write a machine, what are you doing writing?" 17. Marc writes from the heart. He doesn't do much editing and likes to provide reading recommendations instead of directly citing his sources. 18. The person who writes down the plan in an organization has tremendous power. If you want to find the up-and-comers at a tech company, look into who's writing the plan. Though they may not be coming up with all the ideas, you'll know they have the energy, motivation, and skills to organize and communicate ideas in a written form. 19. Marc uses a barbell approach to consume information. He focuses on what's happening right now while also reading a lot of things that were written 10+ years ago. The content is either timely or timeless, with almost nothing in between. If there was an Olympic category for most insights per minute, Marc Andreessen would be a guaranteed medalist. writeofpassage.school/how-i-write/
@winecoffin1211 ай бұрын
and that masterclass is now viewed by all of us! THANK YOU to both!
@kreek2211 ай бұрын
Worth the listen, useful summary. "11. Media formats are cyclical." They're invented by genius, then transformed into proliferating undead by mediocrity.
@oilucaslima11 ай бұрын
Marc Andreessen was born with x2 playback speed
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Was serious work to process everything in real time! The density of insight is off the charts
@FarhanAbroad11 ай бұрын
I thought I was slow. Thanks for clearing that up
@orangemanbad11 ай бұрын
Which I very much appreciate. I’d love to have a personal conversation with Marc. I find him very fascinating as a human.
@isaiahcastillo89811 ай бұрын
1.5x maybe 1.75
@chenlim216511 ай бұрын
Yes, he’s the one person I can’t follow at 2x speed.
I'm only a few minutes in but I love interviews that dive deep on a single topic instead of another generalist interview that we've heard before. Bravo
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Thanks! That’s exactly the goal of this show
@rocknrollcanneverdie324711 ай бұрын
Great questions and demeanor bro - subd!
@JasonChannelOne11 ай бұрын
This was a great interview! One of the best by Marc. Well done David!
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Dig it!
@dustinneathery949211 ай бұрын
Before watching this (never watched anything from this channel), I just want to give a shoutout to the A) thumbnail designer and B) the producers of this show. Bravo, one of the best thumbnails I've ever seen. Excited for this ep, thanks guys.
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Thank you… thank you
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
I’ll pass this along to the designer
@AbhishekDwivedi-pv5vvАй бұрын
I also follow on the basis of single tweet and block on the basis of single tweet 😅 Brilliant Podcast, so many probing questions to extract all information and Marc being Marc !!!
@1010milton10 ай бұрын
Great interview, Please share the reading list of the books and authors that he mentions. Thanks for the Pod.
@danielallyway11 ай бұрын
Great interview! Had a wonderful chat with Marc today.
@Batman_akzo11 ай бұрын
Great production quality and great guests.
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Thanks 🙌🏼
@sohilgupta200910 ай бұрын
The amount of output and thoughts articulated per minute by Marc is unparalleled! Nobody comes even close!! 👏
@jacktinney9 ай бұрын
imo Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant can compete ;)
@arti-villa11 күн бұрын
They speak slower. 😅
@HeyWilliamSalas11 ай бұрын
This was really good! You asked some great questions. Both deep and fun/interesting.
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Thanks for listening
@dizorri10 ай бұрын
Honestly looking forward to that insane novel idea Marc
@Ankur_explores11 ай бұрын
Your questions are great!
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
🙌🏼
@voicesofvalueshow11 ай бұрын
Excited to listen!
@ssonationsports706411 ай бұрын
I had to slow down my normal 1.75x speed to 1.5x speed for this one 😅
@defaultmysq11 ай бұрын
marc on fire
@MrTobi411 ай бұрын
24:10 what’s the name of the philosopher in residence? Ben something? I just can’t get the spelling right. **Edit**: it's Venkatesh Rao. Thank you @danielskipperrasmussen161 for pointing it out!
@danielskipperrasmussen16111 ай бұрын
It's Venkatesh Rao
@angelsancheese11 ай бұрын
Marc is thinking about LLM's all the time.
@willl59705 ай бұрын
Marc looks like he is smelling something majestic in the thumbnail for this video. -Like Ron Burgundy-level majestic.
@juliansage26 ай бұрын
Wow, I'm surprised on the quality of guests you get on the podcast. Great work.
@cag111 ай бұрын
When timestamps?
@cadmium161211 ай бұрын
When you make them.
@thieltube39011 ай бұрын
What name does he say at 11:23? Tumer Karan? Edit it’s Timur Kuran
@anirbanc8811 ай бұрын
superb interview, answered my curiosity for pmarca! thanks
@ximenadelatijera10 ай бұрын
I loveee the font you use for captions! What's the type face?
@husainzaidi11 ай бұрын
WTF even Marc Andreeson uses Libgen. Why?
@Eggs-n-Jakey4 ай бұрын
😅
@dalejames48611 ай бұрын
24:37 What are the names of the people he says at this point in the interview? I recognize Peter Thiel's name, but I can understand the other two names he says.
GP of such a large fund and still uses Libgen. Nice.
@zcooner311 ай бұрын
excellent interview
@dontwannabefound11 ай бұрын
Good interview.. very stimulating.
@PavanRIITM7 ай бұрын
Does anyone has a transcript for this podcast?? I have been looking for it since so long!
@HSBTechYT11 ай бұрын
Can you also bring Shaan Puri ?
@bondansatria5 ай бұрын
Done!
@MikeTownsend11 ай бұрын
I thought the questions were well researched, the host was clearly prepared. If his goal was to be Marc's writing coach, this was a good shot on goal.
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Hah! I wouldn’t say no to that…
@varshneydevansh11 ай бұрын
That's true. I am currently writing to improve my ADHD, and I am able to do plenty of things.
@abhipatil484411 ай бұрын
Awesome
@Sirianphillips8 ай бұрын
according to the comments I must be really weird for watching this on 1.25x speed. andreessen writing a fictional narrative of his experiences would be legendary
@noahm22596 ай бұрын
What’s the group chat he is referring to
@christopherwillson11 ай бұрын
Very fun interview
@charlescormierpodcast11 ай бұрын
great interview, great brainfit with marc
@yigechongzi11 ай бұрын
Amazing interview. A conversation with a philosopher-king by THE writing Sherpa … the GREAT David Perrell. Thanks for this🎉
@paologtrulli6 ай бұрын
Best takeaway "I'm not going to cite." "Why?" "Because nobody cares" lmao
@David.F.Ansara11 ай бұрын
The paradox of abundance.
@DheerajYadav-xl9ki11 ай бұрын
Watch at .75x
@amochswohntet994 ай бұрын
Mark’s a well-rounded egghead 😂
@124711111 ай бұрын
this applies for both fiction & non-fiction
@dawnfmEnthusiast11 ай бұрын
This is fun
@Because_Reasons6 ай бұрын
Jesus. my brain would explode if I lived like does with the amount of consumption and no breaks and no walks lol
@OURTIFACTS11 ай бұрын
BEST OF Marco IDK BETWEEN 2 FERNS NEXT ?😂
@anirbanc8811 ай бұрын
you need to do one with elon musk, or another cool vertical thinker
@MrBeautytruth11 ай бұрын
Did you end it by calling him Matt
@tengma784911 ай бұрын
OMG, where is his beard?
@eugeniocg307911 ай бұрын
wow holy shit
@ohyeah43085 ай бұрын
Not trying to be impolite but its really resembles an egg.
@danielisaacson26411 ай бұрын
Read this as "how I white"
@reedjohnny463511 ай бұрын
What is marc drinking
@DavidPerellChannel11 ай бұрын
Green tea
@JD-jl4yy11 ай бұрын
Marc has a cruel and ruthless ideology.
@dannysullivan395111 ай бұрын
Like Musk, Andreessen shares a ‘master of the universe’ ego. Success in Silicon Valley doesn’t qualify you to run the world, especially when you have a limited appreciation for democracy.
@HarryJoinerАй бұрын
I cannot believe I just discovered this channel yesterday. What the heck! Where have I been?? This channel is one of the best things on the entire Internet! 🫵🔥