Chris Williamson

It's kind of weird.

I even feel weird saying I write this book because I feel like I build it.

It feels like doing a jigsaw puzzle to me.

And it's much more about removal.

Yeah, and just organizing and finding the thread so that it feels like each question is sort of a natural byproduct of the previous idea and it's just like a clean read all the way through.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's just, it is a weird thing.

And it came out of loving, I mean, I'm a big fan of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett, and like, they never wrote books, but a lot of people built books out of their talks, their lectures, their letters.

And I never knew what to call those either.

But I just found myself asking, like, who do I wish had written books?

And then realizing that the raw material is out there.

And I've been lucky to get, you know, permission from Naval and biology and Elon to like build these things.

Um, and I don't know what to call them and I don't know how to talk about it, but I like, it's fucking awesome is what you can call it, dude.

It's easy.

I feel like anybody who's into podcasting, YouTube, social media knows intellectually that the internet is vast and the niches are bigger than you think.

But it sometimes takes a palpable human experience to be like, oh, shit.

No, really.

They are much bigger than you think.

And I was really just surprised and delighted to like see that book take on a life of its own and see how many people recommended it and see how many people resonated.

Like I thought I was writing a book is like building a lighthouse where you're like it has this ability to kind of like attract your people in a podcast.