#196 – Turning a Weak Skill into Your Best Asset with David Perell of Write of Passage

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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David Perell (@david_perell) is someone whose own friends told him he wasn’t a good writer. By his own account, he was “horrible” at it. In this episode, we talk about why he decided to get really, really good at writing instead of just giving up and what specific techniques made it possible.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? This is Cortland from AndyHackers.com and you're listening to the
0:12.8	IndieHackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and making a lot of money
0:17.6	in the process. And on this show, I sit down with these Indie hackers to discuss the ideas, the opportunities, and the strategies they're taking advantage of, so the rest of us can do the same. I've got David Perrell here. David, welcome to the show. Thank you. It's great to be here. I'm a long time indie hackers fan. Yeah, you are also, I think, one of the most requested guests to come on the show.
0:37.7	People are always sending me emails and you've got to get David on here. And now you're here.
0:41.5	And you're also somewhat of a tough person to describe because you do so many different things.
0:46.1	You are prolific on Twitter. You've got, I think, like 160,000 followers. You've got a blog
0:52.5	where you've written hundreds of essays. You've got multiple
0:54.9	newsletters, I think multiple podcasts, and then maybe the most indie hacker thing about you
0:59.5	is that you've got an online school where you teach people to write. And I think that thing that sort
1:04.8	of ties all this stuff together is the fact that it's all about writing. Everything you write
1:08.4	is about writing. Everything you talk about is about writing. Your Twitter bio says literally the writing guy. How did you decide to choose
1:14.6	that as a description for yourself? Yeah, really creative. My friend Nick Sharma had the DTC guy and
1:20.5	I said, hey, that's pretty good. I'm going to call myself the writing guy. That's it. It's as
1:25.7	simple as that. But yeah, I really believe that
1:29.6	writing on the internet, particularly sharing ideas on the internet, is one of the most underutilized,
1:36.6	under-explored opportunities in the world right now. I believe very strongly that people should
1:43.9	write online, especially people who maybe want to start a
1:47.8	business, who feel intellectually isolated, who work for a corporation, and they don't feel like
1:52.3	they're being fairly compensated for their ideas.
1:55.7	What we're seeing right now is a couple of shifts where it's becoming much easier to distribute your writing.
2:02.1	You have a bunch of places where you can share your writing and you don't have to go through
2:07.1	a lot of the work that you used to have to do when you would build like a WordPress site in
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