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Bill Gurley

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Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

It brings the ideas to life.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Yes.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And I think the reason I told that long story was an answer to your question about fear.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

I think seeing this many stories and they're all โ€“ by the way, I chose โ€“

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

every one of them from a field that your parents would probably tell you not to go into.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

I intentionally skipped, you know, investment bankers and- Doctors.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Yeah, all the stuff that everyone knows is- Nice linear progression.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Yes.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

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.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Years ago, and I don't know when it started.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Actually, it's funny.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

I just said I don't know where it started, and then something popped in my brain.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

I fell in love with these long-form nonfiction articles.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

There's a website called Longreads that has best of, and it's a lot of Atlantic stuff, that kind of thing.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

The thing that popped in my head was there was a New York Magazine article, Suge Knight and

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

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.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

That may have been the first one that got me into this.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

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€“

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

doing this longer form journalism and how it brought stories to life.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

I think Truman Capote's highlighted in that.