David Whyte: Inside the Mind of A Master Poet | How I Write
I interviewed David Whyte, a poet who has mastered the art of turning life's deepest experiences into beautiful writing. We talked about how to write from the place where your inner world meets the ou...
23 Jul 20251h 35min
Alain de Botton: Writing Is Revenge | How I Write
I interviewed Alain de Botton, a philosopher and writer who has turned personal pain into universal wisdom. He's written dozens of books and built The School of Life into a YouTube channel with nearly...
16 Jul 20251h 28min
Steven Levitan: How Modern Family Rewrote The Rules of Sitcom | How I Write
I interviewed Steven Levitan, the co-creator and showrunner of Modern Family, one of the most successful sitcoms of the past two decades. What makes him fascinating isn't just that he wrote hundreds o...
9 Jul 20251h 40min
David Zucker: Hollywood Director Explains The 15 Rules of Comedy | How I Write
I interviewed David Zucker, the director behind Airplane!, Naked Gun, and some of the funniest movies ever made. What makes this conversation fascinating isn't just the behind the scenes stories, but ...
2 Jul 20251h 13min
Bible Project: How Two Guys Changed Bible Education on YouTube | How I Write
This is not a normal episode. There's two guests, not one. Tim Mackie and Jon Collins, and they're the founders of the Bible project, a YouTube channel with more than half a billion views. It is entir...
25 Jun 20251h 27min
Robert Macfarlane: The Most Beautiful Conversation About Language | How I Write
I interviewed Robert Macfarlane, a writer who has mastered the art of nature writing. What makes him fascinating isn’t just that he writes beautifully about landscapes, but how he thinks about languag...
18 Jun 20251h 29min
Steven Pinker: Harvard Professor Explains The Rules of Writing | How I Write
I’m here at Harvard in the office of Steven Pinker. He’s written nine books and spent his life studying language, cognition, and writing. In this interview, we started with the practical: the rules of...
4 Jun 202543min
