Dwarkesh

If you had to give an explanation, what would it be?

So this is something that I wish I could get Daniel to spend a couple of months modeling.

But it seems like maybe you need... Actually, no, because I was going to say like it's...

the intersection of too many different tasks.

You need people who can come up with ideas, who are prolific, who are good writers.

But actually I can also count on like a pretty small number of figures, the number of people who had great blog posts but weren't that prolific.

Like there was a guy named Lou Keepe who everybody liked five years ago and he wrote like 10 posts and people still refer to all 10 of those posts.

And like, I wonder if Lou Keepe will ever come back.

So there aren't even that many people who are like very slightly failing by having all of them accept prolificness.

Nick Whitaker

back when there was lots of FTX money rolling around, I think this was Nick, tried to sponsor a blogging fellowship with just an absurdly high prize.

And there were some great people.

I can't remember who won.

But it didn't result in like a Cambrian explosion of blogging.

Having, I think it was $100,000.

I can't remember if that was the grand prize or the total prize pool.

But having some ridiculous amount of money put in as an incentive got like three extra people.

Yeah, so you have no explanation.

Actually, Nick is an interesting case because Works in Progress is a great magazine.

Yeah.