"the internet has enabled us to teach hundreds of thousands of students well Millions wow you're never really fully on anyone's side we're not Socrates but that is the paradigmatic example right if you..."

"wrote yesterday we breached 10 000 visitors for the first time keep coming you're in good company talk about that yeah so I mean we started in August of 2003 was the first uh post and uh there was no ..."

"could be our rashem on moment right because I feel I know the story but you say first so my remembrance is that I came into Tyler's office office and I said we should write a textbook and Tyler said y..."

"sequence right do you feel like there were moments early on when one of you posted something and the other person was like that's not really what we're going for no I he must have because I both I pos..."

"one of the defining parts of your career are there moments of wow or Serendipity where you said oh my goodness I can't believe what we've built well I thought it would be this big success at 5 000 rea..."

"Alex um he's better than I am and tell him the honest reason why I'm not as smart as Tyler that's the honest reason why so I know I would put it I'll tell you so to me I have to simplify things down r..."

"versus reality because if you go fully indexed on reality it's just too complicated but if it's just stories it loses its basis and reality yeah it's difficult because you can't tell the students the ..."

"how when you're writing these textbooks talk to me about your process for editing and improving the back and forth how does that work is this in a Google doc what is actually happening there people do..."

"read it we want to we want to teach economics to more people than has ever been taught in the entire world and that's one way of doing it my college girlfriend was an economics major and I was very in..."

"will eventually have the largest impact if I were to go into the Mr analytics on YouTube on the blog what would that tell me about the world that I wouldn't understand intuitively you know one way to ..."

"this was the subtitles which is something we never planned on or really thought about it but you put your video on the web and then Google starts automatically adding subtitles right and then with dee..."

"killing ideas I want to hear how that shows up for you presumably you don't have a 100 hit rate of open up blog publish blog so talk to you about that process of I'm not going to publish this I'm not ..."

"The Binding constraint on the success of Mr the individuals but in that sense it's not binding like we have the two of us we don't want more people per se the goal is not to help them the goal is for ..."

"as a writer um yeah I mean I just try and put nose to the grindstone and do the work and I always think that uh if I'm co-authoring collaborating with somebody I always want to put that first because ..."

"yeah absolutely how do you feel like your writing has changed Alex um so it's definitely gotten better um especially on the internet uh you know you have to get to the point very quickly because peopl..."

"like one of the things that I definitely noticed with you Tyler is you have a a sort of softness to the way that you write and actually last night at dinner we were talking about high context cultures..."

"like it shouldn't be too easy context is that which is scarce is one of my favorite sayings and you get better people writing you emails and you get to end up with a better social network better conne..."

"want the patent system to be doing so that you know turned into a paper I wrote talk to me about imitation and Innovation that's a interesting thread let's see if we can wrap it into Mr but sure that'..."

"we were talking earlier about conversation and when I talk to my students like oh my goodness I have writer's block I would say right from conversation find people who you can have a good conversation..."

"which is direct emails and those are excellent like I said 80 or so of the email I get is really worthwhile and we met by you called emailing me that would be an example of a great email I got yeah um..."

"because I know you really like the writing in the show succession how come uh yeah I mean the season three was very very interesting because uh the everything changed in like the final two minutes of ..."

"most interesting inbound I think it's the sum total of teaching a person how you think is my guess but that's hard to measure that's what I think gives you interesting inbound rather than any oh that ..."

"some writing advice you must be brief you must get to the point there are a lot of boring web logs but you learn pretty quickly if you want to be read you better be interesting and timely would you st..."

"very crude but that's sort of something I'm sensing in the partnership between you that's really helped there is a post which I wrote uh to how to tell which is a Tyler blog which is a Alex post and I..."

"the in your Ted Talk you have a line that says one apple feeds one man but an idea can feed the world and that feels like a very marginal Revolution sentence yeah absolutely absolutely um yeah so that..."

"to possibility for them they can write online and create opportunities for themselves and I think that's what Mr does too where you have a bunch of people who wouldn't be exposed to these ideas 30 yea..."

"absolutely so it basically raises the launching pad and so marginal Revolution might not ever be the thing but it makes all the things that you do way more successful from the outset uh yeah absolutel..."

"incredible a lot of people on the internet they overrate their own role as writer and under eight that they ought to be editor a bit more and having the proper balance a lot of what we do is editor al..."

"have something to say or if I'm working on other stuff you know I can take a break I don't feel bad pressured though I'm not stressed about it yeah it's fun and I can't think of a time when I've been ..."

"yeah even if it's a super atypical picture of academic life that they have one at all is extremely important and that they see someone you know living it for real in the super enthusiastic authentic w..."

"and make it a better thing rather than a worse thing that was fun thank you David thank you Alex thank you thank you on this podcast we celebrate great writing and maybe you're ready to become a great..."