Michael Lewis
Person on 4 sites
American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The job of a writer is to get the reader into a state of mind where they will follow you anywhere, including into subjects they never knew they wanted. (opens korrents.com)
“you grab the listener like I try to grab a reader and get them to the state of mind where they'll let you take them anywhere uh and teach them about stuff that they don't even know they want to learn about.”
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Starting from what worked rather than from what failed is a different starting point from almost all journalism, and a journalist who did it would be accused of hagiography. (opens korrents.com)
“In fact, if most journalists started there, they'd be accused of heography”
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An audience is not buying the subject you cover; it is buying your interest in the subject. (opens korrents.com)
“They learn to trust you that if you're interested, they'll be interested. That what in fact what they're buying into is not the subject, but your interest in the subject.”
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The job of a writer is to get the reader into a state of mind where they will follow you anywhere, including into subjects they never knew they wanted. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Long Ships (opens rcmnd.app)
“it’s one of these books that, it’s just a miracle of a book. It’s called The Long Ships, and it’s by a Scandinavian historian.”
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A Gentleman in Moscow (opens rcmnd.app)
“The other book, my pandemic reading gift I’ve been giving to people, because it’s a perfect pandemic novel, is Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow”
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Unreliable Memoirs (opens rcmnd.app)
“There are memoirs that I’ve given more than once to people. Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs. Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals, essentially comic memoirs.”
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The Long Ships (opens rcmnd.app)