And how important is writing in the modern world?

Look, writing is how we figure out what we think.

So I am a huge advocate for the process itself.

You should love the process.

Um, right? R- you know, people wanna skip over the process 'cause it's hard, right? Every high school and college student is doing that right now, and I'm, I'm worried about their prospects as, as human beings.

Um, but I think you should, you should, you should love the process 'cause you wanna get smarter, because you want to arrive at a new place.

At the deepest level, writing is not just figuring out what we think, but writing can be a, a, a process of figuring out who we are.

How are the two different?

But what's been your experience as you do have this unique purview speaking to founders and having their own politics inevitably trickle into the culture of a business? Yeah.

Every product, every business is political fundamentally.

It has a part to play in the greater economic political ecosystem.

And so a business is a political statement.

And I think it's disingenuous to like smooth off every corner and pretend like it's not there.

So I have a lot of respect for the Anderals, the Founders Funds and the Some of those companies in the American dynamism genre that are, you know, they put their beliefs on their chest.

They're able to recruit extraordinary people because it is a movement, you know.

What was your experience with this technology detox?

You ready? Let's hit me.

In an era when Claude has ingested the entirety of the internet and everyone's using it, How can you create content that is original and unique and totally you? To create original content online today, you have to lead an original life.

I think of it in four steps.

Can you take in unusual inputs? Can you lead a life that is extraordinary? Can you lean into your weird as a person? And then can you express yourself with authenticity? So when I think about leading an unusual life, I mean, don't go to the same 16 restaurants that everyone is posting about on Instagram.

I mean, go to the frontier, right? Logistically, ideologically, in terms of your own strengths and capacities.

When I think about inputs, I think about, can you go to primary sources, right? We're all seeing the same 100 posts every day on the feed.

I have a friend, Ben Carlson, who finds these old videos from the 50s and 60s from Dwight D. Eisenhower.

And I'm just like really curious where your head's at and what's sort of like got your goat right now.

app.

That's a whole journey.

With Luis from Duolingo, he grew up in Guatemala.

He had access to great education there in Guatemala, which was very rare.

He eventually went to Duke and then got a PhD at Carnegie Mellon.

But the mission of Duolingo is build the world's best education and make it universally available.

And that comes from his experience being around lots of folks who didn't have education.

Yeah.