Bill Gurley
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It brings the ideas to life.
Yes.
And I think the reason I told that long story was an answer to your question about fear.
I think seeing this many stories and they're all โ by the way, I chose โ
every one of them from a field that your parents would probably tell you not to go into.
I intentionally skipped, you know, investment bankers and- Doctors.
Yeah, all the stuff that everyone knows is- Nice linear progression.
Yes.
I have none of those in there for this reason, because I wanted to help people get past the fear by giving them the motivation and the method to do it.
Years ago, and I don't know when it started.
Actually, it's funny.
I just said I don't know where it started, and then something popped in my brain.
I fell in love with these long-form nonfiction articles.
There's a website called Longreads that has best of, and it's a lot of Atlantic stuff, that kind of thing.
The thing that popped in my head was there was a New York Magazine article, Suge Knight and
And Snoop and I think Biggie were on the cover of New York Times Magazine when I was โ it was in 93 or 94, and it was 20 pages.
That may have been the first one that got me into this.
But that led me to a book called The New Journalism, and there's another one called The New New Journalism about these writers that kind of left the being beat writers on newspapers and started โ
doing this longer form journalism and how it brought stories to life.
I think Truman Capote's highlighted in that.