Kyle Harrison
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David Perell

David Perell

Writer, essayist, and writing teacher whose ideas recur as connective tissue across Kyle’s reading on Open Source Knowledge, Historical Futurism, and Digital Creators. Perell shows up most often not as a subject but as a lens Kyle applies to other texts. In The Death of Expertise, Kyle ties Nichols’s argument — that experts who can’t translate findings into plain English leave “a wide open space… for amateurs, hucksters, charlatans” — directly to “a David Perell tweet about the opportunity to translate Academic Research for everyday people.” In The Great Mental Models Volume 1 — General Thinking Concepts, a Kyle note connects the material to “David Perell talking about how knowledge workers should train like athletes.” In Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Perell surfaces via a Sam Walton quote (from a Perell article) about being willing to change one’s mind.

He is also the named author of the Historical Futurism thesis Kyle works from in Historical Futurists: “to invent the future, people first need to be inspired by hopeful visions of it.” The Digital Creators concept page frames Kyle’s “David Perell-era long reads” as a body of work about the internet collapsing gatekeepers and letting individual personalities build founder-led audiences. And in Twitter, Perell co-anchors the workshop (How to Crush It on Twitter: David Perell and Matthew Kobach Workshop) that treats Twitter as “the most amazing networking and learning network ever built,” rewarding compression and novelty. His fellowship essay on Walt Disney as a city architect (the EPCOT planned-city vision) is one of the reading-list links saved under The New City.

Context: David Perell is an American writer and entrepreneur best known for founding Write of Passage, an online writing course, and for his essays and podcast (The Portal / How I Write) on writing, the internet, and learning.

Where this appears

  • Peter Thiel’s Religion — Perell’s own long-form profile of Peter Thiel, reading Thiel’s worldview through Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory and Christian eschatology; his most extensive single piece in Kyle’s corpus.
  • The Death of Expertise — the “translate academic research for everyday people” tweet, tied to the expert-to-public translation gap.
  • The Great Mental Models Volume 1 — General Thinking Concepts — Kyle note on Perell’s “knowledge workers should train like athletes.”
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack — a Sam Walton “willing to change his mind” quote sourced from a Perell article.
  • Academic Research — Perell’s translation-of-expertise tweet anchors the concept.
  • Digital Creators — Kyle’s “David Perell-era long reads” on creators-as-brands and the collapse of gatekeepers.
  • Historical Futurists — author of the “hopeful visions inspire the future” thesis behind historical futurism.
  • Twitter — co-leads the Perell/Kobach workshop framing Twitter as a networking-and-learning engine.
  • The New City — his EPCOT / Walt-Disney-as-city-architect fellowship essay saved to the reading list.
  • Building a Second Brain, The Lessons of History, Sam Walton — Made in America — anti-library entries surfaced through his orbit of recommendations.

Saved references (April 17th, 2020)

  • Hidden gem alert! Here’s a… (tweet) — the septivium best-introductory-books list that seeded 17 anti-library entries.
  • Here’s a Fun Collection of… (tweet) — his collection of great speeches → The Greatest Speeches.
  • Free Business Idea. a Market… (tweet) — the copy-editor marketplace idea → Entity Ideas.

From Roam

Linked from this Roam page (pages that already exist here): A Message to Every Entrepreneur · A Short Guide to Spectacles · America Runs On Instagram · Bet On Humanity · Creative Intersections · Critical States · David Perell · Equinox Is More Than A Gym. It’s A Church · Find Your Territory · Forget More To Learn More · How Callaway Golf Increases Fan Engagement During Major Championship Weeks · How to Maximize Creativity · How to Maximize Serendipity · Hyper Publishing · It’s Time To Disrupt Our Archaic Education System · Just Flow With It · Learn Like An Athlete · Live the Library · Meaningful Travel · Naked Brands · News in The Age of Abundance · Oh Snap, It’s Here · Orality and Literacy Book Review · Peter Thiel’s Religion · Pursue What Is Meaningful · Riding the Writing Wave · Saving Retail · Snapchat’s Big Advantage · Streaming Makes Us Superhuman · Surge Pricing Can Save Hundreds of People · The Attention Game · The Future of American Sports · The Future of Work (Article) · The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread · The Lessons Of History Book Review · The Magic of Elon Musk · The Magic of Learning · The Magical Touch of Finn Beales · The New American Dream · The Pursuit of Meaning · The Story of Singapore · The Timeless Allure of Ruins · Wearable Brands · What You Don’t Know About The Headphone Jack · When Java Meets Jive · Where Do We Go Next? · Why Can’t School Be Fun? · Why You’re Christian · Wisdom From Walmart

Also referenced (no wiki page yet): 10 Year Vision: Write of Passage · 50 Ideas That Changed My Life · A Day In Mexico City · Adulting Fast and Slow · Algorithmic Blindspots · Amazon: The Everything Store (article) · Annual Review: 2019 · Audience-First Products · Brent Beshore: Learning to Pole Vault · College Students: Focus On This · Coolest Things I Learned in 2018 · Coolest Things I Learned in 2019 · Dan Runcie: Why Drake Is Everywhere · David Perell "Live the Library" Master Twitter Thread · David vs. Goliath: A History of New York Trade · Do You #FeelTheBern? Behind Bernie Sanders' Quest To Take Over The White House · Don't Go To College This Fall · E Pluribus Unum: A Case For Compulsory National Service · Eric Jorgenson: Short Term Catchy, Long Term Sticky · Grow The Merry-Go-Round · How I Choose What To Read · How To Cure Writer's Block · How To Improve Your Speech · How to Crush it on Twitter: David Perell and Matthew Kobach Workshop · Hyper Publishing: The Wiki Strategy · Jaspreet Singh: Minority Mindset · Mastering the Media: The Secrets of Robert Moses · Maximizing vs. Satisficing Brands · Morgan Housel: Naked Brands Interview Series · My Principles of Company Building · Naked Brands: The Future of Basketball · Naked Brands: The Future of Fashion · Naked Brands: The Future of Finance · Naked Brands: The Future of Music · Narrative-Market-Fit · Nat Eliason: Secrets of SEO · North Star Podcast · Not So Lazy & Entitled Millennials: David Perell · One Big Idea · People-Driven Learning · Personal Update · Peter Thiel: Uncommon Knowledge · Ratings Gone Wrong · Swimming and Scuba Diving: How To Learn On The Internet · Talking To Strangers · Taylor Pearson: Branding and Blockchains · Teaching Like a State · That Is Marketing · The Algorithmic Trap · The Amazon Arbitrage · The Checklist Habit · The Customer Acquisition Pricing Parade · The Five Finger Trigger · The Fruit of Friendship · The Go-For-It Window · The Magic Binoculars: Robert Caro's Writing Secrets · The Magic Moment · The Never-Ending Now · The Online Writing Roadmap · The Paradox of Ambition · The Pivot To Owned Commerce · The Price of Discipline · The Singularity Is Here · The Social Media Trap · The Story of Write of Passage · The Story of the Senate · The Ultimate Guide To Writing Online · Thoughts on San Francisco · What Should You Work On? · What The Hell Is Going On? · When Media Cries Wolf · Where The Wild Things Are · Why Did The Boeing 737 Max Crash? · Why Is College So Expensive? · Why Maps Lie To You · Why People Cooperate · Why You Should Write · Why You Should Write Pseudonymously · Write of Passage Summer Camp Manifesto · Your Wall of Heroes

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