Diego Perez

“I think there's one in particular that we just invested in bereavement company. That's like when you have a loved one that passes away, you don't quite think about How many things go into taking care of them as an individual, like, and simultaneously taking ca…”

“I think I probably have more, more social media followers than both of them, but they sell more books than I do, and I think it's because of the way that they have set up their being more newsletter focused and having just fantastic content”

“A number of chapters of that book are built off of newsletters that I released that that I knew performed really well, and so I would take that, you know, something that was maybe, like, 700 words and then built a whole chapter out of it.”

“Even Yuval said it, which I thought was really interesting because him and I, we actually have never, we've never spoken. But he said he would not have been able to write Sapiens without meditation.”

“Don't forget that you're a writer first and foremost, and not a social media manager. I find with like myself and with other people who are out there is like, they'll stretch themselves so far on every single platform that it's just sort of like devaluing and …”

“When we first created wisdom ventures, that was a lot of the conversation was like, we were, we're hoping to invest in that next generation of social media that can help connect people without all these addictive, like byproducts.”

“And I think, looking back, I feel like if I would have done things differently, I would have definitely put a lot more emphasis on building a newsletter in like starting in 2016, as opposed to starting in 2020.”

“Oh, behind Young Pueblo, it's just me and my wife.”

“Like, I meditate two hours a day, one hour in the morning, one hour in the evening. I go to meditation retreats, like you know, a few times a year. Usually, usually one of them will be longer, like, 30 or 45 days long”

“In the past, like, three years, I've been really focusing on just building a newsletter and I've found a home on Substack because I've become friends with the people who have built Substack and have seen the depth of their commitment to how they're always goin…”