"one of the things that we had done I think  incorrectly in our modernism was to remove   we living from the dead and or the dying we do  not thrive in isolation it is the community and   cooperation b..."

"tax if you reach that state then what there's  nothing left we're all connected across time   and space the past present and future make  up there now you can imagine it's no longer   as a line but as..."

"and and let's start out if you don't mind with  the story the day dad started over or the day   dad started off which one is Edward oh the right  the day's dad started and thank you by the way for   m..."

"to write for myself without talking about Dad at  the time I found out that some of the pieces that   resonated the most with people were the ones  where I was really thinking of him and feeling   all..."

"Non-Stop what became that book box of stars  I had not planned on it I had not outlined it   I simply said I'm going to start writing and  I decided let's start with the first 30 days   and I created ..."

"world was the outside and was quiet and was just  as well I had no other concerns or thoughts and   he grew sick twice and that summer in August and  then in the winter and in Winter was very tough   ..."

"born that year then the following year in 2021  while I was just dealing with everything else   dealing with his his Affairs  and settling things and   and this book came and this book came and  it wa..."

"the end I want to know more about these people I  created in this 30-day story I wanted to create   a backstory and I wanted to explore history so  each of these subsequent 30-day periods for the   ne..."

"got all these things going on so so let's explore  that plus a character of an artist a young woman   from a far away place and I made her basically  from from the new world from a jovian I said   let..."

"it created what looked like brokerage statements  because I want to write up about the big 80s and   money and that period and the economics and  what was going on in the Market at that time   and exp..."

"Cold War the end of the secret war and I wanted  to explore what happens to a war hero who has to   deal with coming from Mars to Earth as a military  attache to start his life over and and just like ..."

"doing it justice and I'm boring your audience but  I'm telling you that was my year the first year   and I thought I was done and I spoke to a good  friend Jawad meandi referred me to was the author  ..."

"because right there according to astronomers in  the 19th century at the very South Pole because   it's perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic  the the light that is uh coming from the Sun onto   ..."

"oh I couldn't agree more the the the questions  are vastly more important than the answers but   I'm gonna ask you some now and and we'll see  what you think I I had originally written   uh before tal..."

"did absolutely the most wonderful and right thing  because when I was there for those three months   he was falling apart and and one night during  during that time I slept with the phone right   next..."

"you know by that period by that time with  Dad the the thing that I find fascinating   um I agree with you by the way that we do not do  well in isolation that's why solitary confinement   is often co..."

"about that it's interesting that you bring  and then thank you for reading it by the way   um I was one of the earliest pieces I wrote  when when everything was just that was you know   in January 202..."

"that makes any sense and so for when I was writing  that I thought boy if you can go through all those   experiences that's all there is isn't there and  you you're so very lucky to be granted that uh..."

"um in you was it your imagination was it your  fascination with going down rabbit holes I   think that's something you and I share  I think that I think it might be that I   I do I have written I have..."

"um I I like to write I kept journals since age  18. um but I I have an uh a different view about   schooling I think our schooling as it presently  is deployed worldwide is absolutely in need of   an ..."

"well we we came through it through becoming  right her clitus said everything is always   in a state of becoming and before the  industrial flux yeah yeah flux right   um you know before the Industria..."

"some very bad things so I can look at the good  part of the word uncertainty it there is the   other kind too the kind where you sleep with the  phone next to you and you there's all those things   an..."

"I I was gonna interject about the phone though was  I don't know that I think of that necessarily as   uncertainty I think of that as like I knew my mom  was gonna die yes and so I wasn't uncertain ab..."

"um that that is sort of like paint by numbers is  the way I think about it I'm mixing my metaphors   there I I but I get your meeting but and  and I really hate it and and like when I   see it it just..."

"um and and I kind of think that that's the way  these great stories get written like Cloud Atlas   I don't know whether you've read American Gods  by Neil Gaiman oh that's another one and go ahead   I..."

"told you before we started recording and my my  uh my Olympus here is the movie My Dinner with   Andre which is a marvelous movie that very few  younger people have seen I think it was made in   1981 ..."

"work as well but I also see I just finished a book  uh by David Shields called reality hunger um and   and he's an essayist who who spends the majority  of the book deriding what novels have become   ..."

"having no idea of our Quantum future um do you  do you like where do you get your inspiration   from just is it from life is it found art you  know the the part with your father and you're   going thr..."

"is no outline to speak of except what was created  in those first 30 days or what was in my head when   I started uh the book that became Harvest that  second book that that JFK speech it was just I  ..."

"I thought about you and it's wonderful that  this is just uh happening naturally you your   writing is also quite cinematic and and I and I  think and you and you talk about Marseille and   um uh you ..."

"suddenly it went non-linear that's awesome in  other words they were having the normal boring   so how are you how are things all of the  things that we really these are just filler   phrases and we'r..."

"um but it it's it's like do you do you have  because again we're getting back to a bit   of the myth does I are our myths the ones  we're writing now are we writing enough of   them I I'm very taken b..."

"it's the whole sorry Ben Hunt it's the whole  it's the whole things that we are the common   language that we all share in terms of the media  in terms of our entertainment our literature   uh it our ..."

"entertainments and our experiences from our time  it's uh Stephen Johnson speaking of novels Stephen   Johnson had this interesting chart of marvelistic  genres and Trends and they seem to last   coin..."

"in in many risk respects that um one of the things  that you let happen in in your writing and I think   it's why it appeals to me so much is that it  it I I I'm a fan of what's called found art   um ..."

"it was wonderful because she told me all about how  no those you know I I asked her about one of the   pieces somewhere in black and white somewhere  in column and I was asking her about um uh the   w..."

"adaptability and resilience talk to me about that  uh because I I definitely see that in your work   oh that's so I I all I can say is at the time  when I was writing the first early pieces I   I was ..."

"character or a scene from from what I'm hearing or  what I'm seeing whatever I suppose yeah there is a   bit of a found I would make preview images you've  seen them where and the mood board each of t..."

"the really ancient past and that was just enough  that was just enough a one line one image a sound   and you you you also write quite a  bit about the future right you wrote   a piece called looking ..."

"the and I don't want to use that word essentialism  I I just I don't want to talk about things like   that and say Marie kondo I I simply want to say  that uh I don't want to be reductionist I don't  ..."

"the future uh Wilson called that time binding um  so my my question there is which by the way I 100   agree with you I I do believe our stories and our  myths if you will like Kennedy saying we're goi..."

"minimum but also it's just that part of our hard  wiring because we owe mankind most of mankind has   not always had it so good so unfortunately  the things that that that's just a reminder   maybe th..."

"will right it will it it can Eclipse our Pursuit  let's use this in this field of thick desires   the thing would you love doing this thing or this  thing or this place or this person even if no one  ..."

"rolled out for people they're going to have these  tools the ux will get better the tooling will get   better on both the the rails right the financial  rails but also for the building and creating an..."

"merger of these two weird fields that venkatesh  were all talked about that uh Peter Thiel was   cautionary about saying one field was Communist  and one was liberal well that almost sounds like   Pla..."

"exciting and it seems you do as well I just think  we're going to be able to look into liminal spaces   where simply because of the speed of computation  these uh programs are able going are going to ..."

"um the the thing that I passionately believe  and which is why I invested in an open source   company as opposed to a closed source is I believe  that this has to be must be open source for a lot   of..."

"um but um yeah there's going to be a lot of rancor  along the way because we're going to get back to   um this idea of getting on the other side of  perfection Perfection doesn't exist it's it's   a c..."

"what I just that'll be my final message  where this conversation but also   for my life I love it well uh we have a vertical  called uh uh infinite films and I definitely will   be getting in touch wi..."