"there's this massive sort of bias toward oh if something doesn't have Mass Appeal then as an industry we're just not interested in putting it in print at all now the problem is that that skill set aro..."

"content wello everybody it's Jim oasy with yet another infinite Loops today I am super excited to have on a fellow publisher who has a very very unique way of looking at the publishing industry her na..."

"name of your studio from that uh prehistoric cave where all the beautiful uh uh paintings uh are or or or no yes yes I sure did do you know uh the Steely Dan song caves of aliro I do yes I am a long c..."

"the new book deal you you are an incredibly Innovative publisher uh backed by your uh ability to also serve as a great writing coach so tell me a little bit about the new book deal um that you are off..."

"also note in you have four Bibles and one of them are Shakespeare sonets and that's something we share when I was a teenager I love poetry I still do uh but I memorized 100 poems and many of them were..."

"lament oh you know there isn't the this kind of form available today or or that type of writer not necessarily you might just have to look elsewhere I want to jump back though to the the new book deal..."

"that does that make sense totally um so it it's a bit like um you you you're very helpful in being able to see oh that should be a book like when you're getting all these submissions memes make millio..."

"really extraordinary company I was like I better read this book because I didn't get to work there I actually interviewed there and I tried to drop out of college to join which is kind of a funny stor..."

"done in writing coaching with my team kind of rhymes with that in many ways it's like you're going to do your best writing when you are trying to communicate to someone who you can name and someone wh..."

"fighting over kind of the same outcomes it's about thinking differently I love that that uh and and for what it's worth um we we have kind of the same attitude at infinite books we we don't view you a..."

"to I think the clearest uh the clearest way to understand that the simplest way to understand that is just in terms of how much fluff is in books so there's a lot of things there's a lot of things und..."

"uh to see wow I I wonder why I sales 5x in Omaha oh well maybe that's because you wrote a book about Warren Buffett and they just had Woodstock for capitalism and people are buying the book but and I ..."

"push people to kind of like take the minimum action so like with social media everybody's familiar with like we can all see how yeah what's being pushed is the stuff that oh yeah I'll just like that y..."

"number I don't know exactly what it is but anecdotally it's like 97% of your Kindle books are stuck below 5% completion so yeah it's not good so that's a big that's a big part of this kind of regressi..."

"industry because there's there's just so much old stuff that's weighing them down I don't remember how exactly we started this uh this trans we we we were talking about the reversion to the mean that ..."

"want our authors that we spent a lot of time and effort with uh as their partner we don't want them to not sell their books so we we definitely want to also have a really good marketing uh arm for wha..."

"and so one of the things that we are going to offer we don't have it yet we're developing it right now but uh the we're investors in a different company called W and what it is is a AI uh designed for..."

"poems that are that are definitely reminiscent of mine it it's is it GPT store I think so I think so um it's called G poet the jeo okay we will make it we will make sure that that goes into the show u..."

"that material into something that then fits into that outline that we created together like with that person and the outcome there is a book that in a sense was written by no one which is really inter..."

"similar to uh our approach to this as well um I personally think that um having experimented I was a very early adopter of AI um back when they called it machine learning as opposed to AI um and saw t..."

"definitely think that um that is one of the more exciting changes and tools available to authors today um and specifically to people who as you mentioned would probably not have written a book uh prio..."

"written and uh then I always the one of the first questions I ask is please suggest the uh and enumerate the weak points of this piece of writing and I got to be honest sometimes like they're really n..."

"but then I'll say I'll do the opposite and say please point out all of the deficiencies in this particular thing by doing that you really get out of the Hat see one of the things that I just hate alth..."

"have any kind of support or verification what do you think what do you think uh about the role of Agents do you think that those are going to disappear do you think they're going to change uh because ..."

"think the the role of agent is going to disappear or is it going to transform I think that historically agents have been the middleman you that's that's a that's an that's like more of a publicist rol..."

"of playing the middleman does that make sense it does I that was one of my simple hypotheses uh when we were looking at all what we term the great reshuffle um and like one of my earlier business hypo..."

"so uh anyway just teasing um another thing that you started that I that I really like the idea is this you call it Muse by mail tell us a little bit about Muse by mail because I think it's really Inno..."

"weird but what I realized is that the focus on what authors need is really really crucial but so is the focus on what readers need and that's the thing that I didn't and I think a lot of Publishers in..."

"the idea of muse by mail is it is a personalized mail drop for Creative people and you can if you go to Muse by mail.com you will be able to access whatever the latest iteration of this actually is wh..."

"think they're really brilliant if you could give we always try to um uh help our listeners and viewers uh we probably have a lot of people listening and and watching this right now are like boy I woul..."

"person is it just just start is it Nikes just do it or or do you have something that's piece of advice more nuanced the advice I have is think of someone you love someone you love very much could be y..."

"people in your life the people who you really really care about the people who you want to succeed you want to see them have a great future if you could leave them with just one thing what would that ..."

"creative work um another thing I A lot of times say is make art not noise life is too short for disposable content and um lead by example you know do do and and say the things that you hope other peop..."

"huge mistake that people make and that's why you get some much of the finality and and the you know like oh this one's going to be a thinger what's the thing from succession the meme the all bangers a..."

"that looking to improve their Communications with their internal team with their investors just with themselves to some degree you know founder CEOs with their visions and stuff and uh we've been you ..."

"coach but yeah I mean we're a tiny team and the whole thing it's just all kind of you know the altimir studio and the writing do coach thing it's kind of all one it's it's one initiative around you kn..."

"they're actually doing that um but I I think I'd go all in on that uh because that's the other aspect that is part of our thesis is the internet the interconnectivity the tools that are available righ..."

"way what are you most excited about right now be it a book be it something you're doing at the company what what do you like when you wake up and you think oh God it's I'm so glad I'm I've got uh this..."

"sending it to me I'm a huge philosophy nerd as well and so I can give you your blurb right now uh for people who wish they would like some philosophy but just haven't been able to get into it because ..."