Tom Mayer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's like the night before a play opens.
We don't know how it's going to be received.
And what happens next kind of depends on the audience.
Will they pack the house and leap to a standing ovation?
No, we jumped right into the hard work of book writing marriage.
You change from being a collector to being a director.
So you go from wanting something of like, ooh, I want to buy that.
I want it, you know, on my shelf, right?
to, all right, how am I going to make this great?
Well, I think the first is what goes in the book itself.
Alex Maiossi started writing draft chapters.
And he would share them with me and Alex Goldmark.
There's nothing like reading a chapter that did not exist before and you're the first person on earth to see it.
That is extremely exciting.