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Podcast: Audience of One
Episode: #056 - Dylan O’Sullivan on Lying to Yourself, Timelessness, Discipline, & Writing
Description: Dylan O’Sullivan is a curator, editor, and writer at O'Shaughnessy Ventures and Essayful. Dylan and I talk about writing, taste, discipline vs. inspiration, timelessness vs ephemerality, boredom and solitude vs. the internet, inciting a digital renaissance, not lying to yourself, and more.
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(00:45) Curating & editing vs. writing
(05:39) Fear of never writing quality work or living up to your idols
(08:32) Discipline vs. inspiration
(15:49) Balancing technology & ephemerality with the timeless
(17:44) Solitude, getting better at the craft, and having a "normal" life
(21:09) Boredom
(26:32) Short attention & the effe...