Tahl Raz

Congrats to my coauthors @bethcomstock @elbotelho @kimrosypowell! Honored to have two books on the @800ceoread 2018 Business Bestseller List. Thank you!

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) on why you should read books: “There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses and invent new technology. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these ideas down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time.”

I asked 195,000 people for the best book they read in 2024. These 14 turned up the most (so they will make for great reading over the holidays):🧵

@packyM Going all-in creates its own luck

@jessethanley @_KevinGraham @noahkagan Thank you @_KevinGraham and @jessethanley. It was correct in the draft but must've been changed during the copy edit. We'll get it fixed next printing.

@_KevinGraham @noahkagan @tahlraz

@mndwmedia "Just f%*king start" @noahkagan @tahlraz

Something I wish I’d learned as a kid and not in my early 20s is that life isn’t zero sum Chat people up. Tip heavy. Give complements. Everyone comes out better for it. Too many people still take cold transactional approaches to everyday interactions

The secret to greatness: Pick your thing. Pick a good system for your thing. Surround yourself with people who support you doing your thing. Do your thing for a decade.

Unlocking A Bestseller: Million Dollar Weekend by @noahkagan charliehoehn.com/2024/02/11/mil…

Unbelievable to make the New York Times Best Sellers list for Million Dollar Weekend 💚🫰 Thank you all. So grateful for each of you 🙇‍♂️

Epic debut! Congratulations @noahkagan! #8 on Amazon Charts Most Sold Nonfiction: Million Dollar Weekend #rank8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">amazon.com/charts/2024-02… #AmazonCharts via @amazon

I talk with Tahl Raz on my new podcast episode. He co-wrote my new book Million Dollar Weekend, and major best-sellers like Never Eat Alone and Never Split the Difference. I’d been dreaming about working with Tahl for decades. After no response from cold emails, I finally got his attention on LinkedIn, and after a call, he agreed to help me. I thought that if I could combine his writing skills with my book idea, we could create something really special. We booked a cabin in the woods for 5 days to finish the first draft. I was excited to work with @tahlraz, but on the first day, he called my book proposal bullsh*t (ouch). It stung. But he was right. Tahl pushed me and challenged me constantly. From this I was able to see his best-selling writing process. • Study the best. We conducted book reports on the top 30 books in our category. Tahl said, if we are writing this book - it had to be #1 in the entrepreneurship category. • Get to the core. Break down each chapter on human-sized pieces of paper to clarify the ‘aha’ moment, unique angle, and compelling story. This was to make sure there was 0 bullsh*t in the book! • Stories are memorable. Specifically, vulnerable stories are what gets remembered in a book. Focus deeply on this! • The process is never pretty. People romanticize the process of writing a book, thinking the first draft will be perfect. In reality, it takes edit after edit after edit to get it right. Over the course of the book, we cut 20,000 words. • Include your customers in the process. The final ⅓ of finishing the book was beta readers which quickly highlighted points of confusion and which parts were most impactful. Thanks everyone 🙏 From Tahl, I learned a ton about book-writing. But what I wasn’t expecting was how much I learned about myself. I faced serious imposter syndrome throughout this entire process. Sometimes I doubted the entire book. Hiring Tahl, in some ways, was to avoid doing the hard work of facing the material and seeing if I could really put a book together to help people. But after positive feedback from thousands of beta readers started coming in, I realized I could do it. Million Dollar Weekend is for all the people willing to take a chance on themselves (including myself). (Link to listen to my conversation with Tahl Raz below 👇)

Would be very hard to create a better one-sentence summary to Never Split the Difference than this: "Productive disagreements begin with curiosity, not persuasion."

This is a hard story to read but also an important story to read if you want to understand why there will be no ceasefire until Hamas is liquidated. Why there CAN be no ceasefire. No nation would allow this to happen to its people without punishment. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

If you have yet to try the Never Split the Difference approach to negotiating, I highly recommend it. The first time you do it, it feels like magic. Much better than the "Getting to Yes" stuff I see MBAs try to use (poorly).

I'm learning the decades-long message that "we must sacrifice our lifestyle to save the planet" is wrong: - EV's are better - walkable cities with clean air are better - induction cooking & heat pumps are better What needs to be done is not sacrifice - it's advancement

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@tahlraz Seriously?

i mispronounced meme as mem. for a decade. until someone corrected me at a dinner party by joking, "that must be the French version." i relive that moment about every 4 days for the last 3 years.

The story of Hassan, the boy whose whole body looked like an open wound because of a genetic condition which led his skin to be paperthin. He had his DNA repaired and the modified skin cells grew to make skin totalling 0.85 sq m. He now leads a normal life buff.ly/30Rp5km

Hideyuki Nakayama's glass globe doorknob was made in 2010. It was conceived to refract the scene on the other side of the door in its depths without using cameras, giving a preview of the next room before turning the knob [read more: buff.ly/2KPiRiW]

For every billion in valuation, a tech co should spend a few million on original content, with their own editor-in-chief. Not on PR; that’s just an interface to legacy media corporations. Tell your own story, it’s your defense budget. Bloomberg isn’t Bloomberg without Bloomberg.