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Back to SearchSteven Pinker: Harvard Professor Explains The Rules of Writing | How I Write
Season 1
I’m here at Harvard in the office of Steven Pinker. He’s written nine books and spent his life studying language, cognition, and writing. In this int…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Ezra Klein: The Case Against Writing With AI | How I Write
Season 1
Ezra Klein is one of the internet’s most influential journalists. He co-founded Vox in 2014, and it was there he really pioneered this new era of onl…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Eric Roth: The Screenwriter Behind Forrest Gump and Dune | How I Write
Season 1
Dune. Forrest Gump. Benjamin Button. Eric Roth wrote all of them. He’s been nominated for seven Oscars and won Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gu…
1 year ago
Michael Jamin: The Hollywood Sitcom Writer | How I Write
Season 1
Michael Jamin has been writing Hollywood sitcoms for 28 years on shows like King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-Head. Unlike most comedy writers, he…
1 year ago
Dean Koontz: 120 novels published. 500 million copies sold. | How I Write
Dean Koontz has written over 100 books and sold more than 500 million copies, making him one of the best-selling authors of all time. I visited Dean …
1 year ago
Johann Hari: The Obsessive Research Method | How I Write
The world isn’t made of atoms, it’s made of stories. I’ve never heard anyone speak so deeply about interviewing. Johann Hari has written four books, …
1 year ago
Will Storr: The Science of Storytelling | How I Write
Will Storr has written 7 books and he’s basically a scientist for storytelling. Now you might be thinking: Do we really need another storytelling guy…
1 year, 1 month ago
Michael Dean: The 27 Patterns To Fix Bad Writing
Season 1
Architect Michael Dean breaks down the hidden patterns behind the great essays of our time. In this video, we go over his 27-point framework that mak…
1 year, 1 month ago
Lulu Cheng Meservey: Meet Silicon Valley’s Top PR Master
Season 1
The old communications playbook is dead: Political and company narratives used to be controlled by publicists and journalists. But now, founders can …
1 year, 1 month ago
The Ultimate Guide to Writing with AI
Season 1
Get my free PDF on using LLM's for writer's + my in-depth prompts: https://perell.com/ai
AI has triggered an existential crisis for me. In this episo…
1 year, 2 months ago