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Puri: Writers Should Prime Their Energy Before Writing Like Stage Performers
“No stage performer goes on stage just kind of cold and low energy. But almost every writer starts cold and low energy and just sits there somewhat miserably. And there's even some weird glory from, like, this, like, I don't know, this, like, pain that's martyr…”
Parr: Candidates unable to speak passionately about their major make bad writers
“And if they can't tell me a story about something that they spent four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars on, then they're just not going to be a good writer because they're not interesting enough.”
Balaji: Media prioritizes writers over engineers, while tech does the opposite
“On the East coast, for example, media, media businesses have sort of software engineers as a second class citizen, right? They're just guys who build the app and the writers are kind of the first class, right? Traditionally in tech, it's been the opposite. You…”