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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

I Write Therefore I Am: David Perell— Building A Second Brain + Write of Passage (#139)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

David Perell is a modern philosopher-scholar. He is a Gen-Z version of Seth Godin who both writes and thinks in public to become a more refined intellectual. He is a brilliant raconteur who also partners with Tiago Forte to produce the spectacular "Building a Second Brain" course! Support our Sponsor LinkedIn Jobs! Use this link to post your first job ad for FREE LinkedIn.com/impossible David's motto is: “Write every day.” Most of his essays are about business, education, and what it means to be a citizen of the Internet. These essays are a record of his intellectual quest to make sense of the world. They’re the diary of his contemplative life, and you will enjoy them. Start with the short-form essays and work your way up to the long-form ones. https://perell.com/ David's most popular short articles include The Price of Discipline, The Never-Ending Now, and One Big Idea. And if you want to read some long-form essays, I recommend What the Hell is Going On, News in the Age of Abundance, and Peter Thiel’s Religion. Or, if you want a short introduction to my thinking, you’ll like 50 Ideas that Changed My Life.If you want to see all his writing on a single page, you’ll find all my essays here At https://perell.com/about/ In Write of Passage, you will develop a systematic process for cultivating ideas, distilling them into writing, and sharing them with the people who can make the biggest difference in your career.By the time you finish the course, you will have published a series of insightful articles, built a professional website, launched an email newsletter, learned how to use these assets to connect with anyone on the planet, and developed a framework for uniquely framing your expertise and skills.You’ll transform from a passive consumer to an active creator, and escape the “Mediocre Majority” of people who endlessly consume without ever producing. https://perell.com/write-of-passage-course/ How many brilliant ideas have you had and forgotten? How many insights have you failed to take action on? How much useful advice have you slowly forgotten as the years have passed?We feel a constant pressure to be learning,improving ourselves, and making progress. The solution: Build a Second Brain! https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ Find David's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0a_pO439rhcyHBZq3AKdrw Subscribe to David's NorthStar Podcast: https://perell.com/podcast/ Support the Into the Impossible podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize 🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2 🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/into A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:08.0

It's really a treat to talk to David Farrell.

0:12.0

It's kind of a change up from the podcast you've heard lately with

0:16.2

Neil Degrass Tyson and with Michio Kaku and other luminaries of the astronomical variety,

0:25.0

but today having David Peril, who is an up-and-coming star

0:28.8

building on our intrinsic capabilities

0:32.3

and hopefully upgrading them, giving us a life 2.0 as

0:36.4

Past Guest Max Teggmark classifies life. Life 3.0 David is artificial intelligence and as Einstein said I don't know what weapons will be used to fight

0:45.8

World War 3 but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones but so I don't know what life

0:51.5

4.0 will be like but you guys building a second brain you and your partner Tiago Forte

0:56.6

I wanted to have you on and I'm big fan of your work and his work and I just wanted to showcase what you guys are doing for my audience.

1:04.3

So welcome to the Into the Impossible Podcast.

1:06.1

Thank you so much.

1:07.9

It's a real honor to be here.

1:09.4

It's kind of crazy how many guests you've had that I have people I just really admire and look up to.

1:15.0

Yeah, of course I became aware of your work.

1:18.0

I don't really remember exactly how I found you but those are serendipitous things that add delight and intrigue to life.

1:27.0

But my main motivation is sort of a personal one, which is to enhance not only my brain but in so doing enhance my

1:35.8

Brian and so I'm interested in building a second Brian but before we get there

1:40.3

I think of what you do as providing the most critical skill that is also the least taught.

1:46.0

And I'm saying that as a scientist, as someone who works with engineers,

1:50.0

we have almost no training in how to write for our audience, but certainly for a non-technical audience.

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