May 4, 2023
Billy Oppenheimer is a researcher
for Ryan Holiday. He is also known for his
viral long-form tweets and Six at 6 on
Sunday newsletter.
Billy is insatiably curious. He is a master at drawing lessons from
anecdotes from the worlds of sports, music, comedy, business, and
more.
He joins the show to discuss how to cultivate good taste, whether
everything is a remix, why he learns through introjection, and a
whole lot more.
Important Links:
- Six at 6 on Sunday
-
Billy’s
Twitter
- Billy’s website
- Our episodes with David Senra
(1, 2)
- 'A Bicycle of the Mind' - Steve Jobs on the
Computer
-
Our episode with Edward
Rooster
-
To His Coy Mistress; by Andrew Marvell
-
Kubla Khan; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Show
Notes:
- Focus on doing the
thing
- SIX at 6’s origin
story
- Learning through
introjection
- Developing taste & cultivating
curiosity
- “People don’t have ideas, ideas
have people”
- How Billy practices his
scales
- Fiction vs
non-fiction
- Repetition, repetition,
repetition
- Should we study more
failures?
- Process compounds
- “Care, but don’t care too
much”
- Has anyone succeeded without
persistence?
- Conceptual
ancestors
- Everything’s a
remix
- Taste, tools, markets &
feedback
- Finding your pain
points
- MUCH more!
Books
Mentioned:
- Trust Me, I'm Lying; by Ryan
Holiday
- Psychology of Money; by Morgan
Housel
- Atomic Habits; by James
Clear
- The Immortality Key : The Secret
History of the Religion with No Name; by Brian C.
Muraresku
- Reality Hunger; by David
Shields
- The Power of Myth; by Joseph
Campbell & Bill Moyers
- Cloud Atlas; by David
Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby; by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
- The Da Vinci Code; by Dan Brown