“I started writing Psychology of Money. I wanted to like reinvent myself. And I was like, oh, like I always write blog posts, but now I got to write a book with”
Books mentioned in How to Write Insanely Well (Morgan Housel Interview)
From How I Write · 2023-11-06
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“Michael Lewis books like Boomerang have been based off of Vanity Fair pieces that he wrote. So even those people who are like, oh, they write books and they write online It's actually”
“it's quake books, people call them. And like, I remember I read Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, and I was like, Oh my goodness, this is an entirely new way to think,”
“And it's true. I always use the example, Stephen King has written like 50 books and the huge majority of his fame and I bet his income come from like three of them. Yeah. So even”
“And it's true. I always use the example, Stephen King has written like 50 books and the huge majority of his fame and I bet his income come from like three of them. Yeah. So even”
“The New New Thing. Most people have never heard of it. Even some of his more recent books, The Fifth Risk. Yeah. And The Undoing Project. Um, I'm sure they're great books.”
“The New New Thing. Most people have never heard of it. Even some of his more recent books, The Fifth Risk. Yeah. And The Undoing Project. Um, I'm sure they're great books.”
“read by a zillion people and they turn them into a book called the most important thing that's sold a zillion copies. Like Howard Marks is he's a billionaire investor and he's”
“So you got psychology of money. Now you got same as ever, like. How do you think about how your books play together? How are you thinking about, I mean, everything from both”
“You know what the number one highlighted book is in Kindle history? 4 Hour Body. Is that right? Number one. And I think that's, I think Tim is a great example of, uh, very quotable.”
“love it. One of my favorite Nassim Taleb books is his least well known, it's called The Bed of Procrustance. So good. So good. It's a collection of aphorisms. And people love that.”
“Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It's a collection of aphorisms. People love short and snappy to the point. And it's almost like, it's a form of poetry,”
“a short history of nearly everything. Yes. We're just talking about the history of the universe. Literally the history of the universe too.”
“famous one is um, Splendid in the Vial. Splendid in the Vial about the London Blitz bombing. And some of his chapters are, are a paragraph. You know, in his average book he'll only have”