Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar16 Jun 2023

Ep 64: Amit Varma on the Creator Economy

There has never been a better time to be a creator. Amit Varma joins Vasant Dhar in episode 64 of Brave New World to discuss his learnings as a podcaster and blogger -- and to explain why AI is not a threat.

Useful resources:
1. Amit Varma on Twitter, India Uncut and Substack.
2. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit Varma's podcast.
3. Brave New World — Episode 203 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vasant Dhar).
4. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain, Deepak Shenoy, Abhijit Bhaduri and Gaurav Chintamani.
5. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma.
6. Why Are My Episodes so Long? -- Amit Varma.
7. If You Are a Creator, This Is Your Time -- Amit Varma.
8. The Naked Sun -- Isaac Asimov.
9. Range Rover — The archives of Amit Varma's column on poker for the Economic Times.
10. Fog of War and Atomic Chess.
11. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
12. A Scientist in the Kitchen — Episode 204 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Krish Ashok).
13. Law and Education in Our Modern World — Episode 5 of Brave New World (w John Sexton).
14. My Friend Dropped His Pants -- Amit Varma.
15. Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line -- Episode 330 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16. $800,000 to Zero – The FASCINATING History of DaVinci Resolve — Alex Jordan of Learn Color Grading.
17. Miss Excel on Instagram and TikTok.
18. How an Excel Tiktoker Manifested Her Way to Making Six Figures a Day — Nilay Patel.
19. This Australian Man Can Speak Fluent Hindi And Bhojpuri -- ABP News.
20. Advertising is Dead -- Varun Duggirala's podcast.
21. How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali Abdaal.
22. My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers — Ali Abdaal.
23. Uplift the Unremarkables — Episode 2 of Brave New World (w Scott Galloway).
24. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
25. The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal — Amitava Kumar.
26. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly.
27. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 — Li Jin.
28. Bill Bishop's newsletter on China.
29. The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto — Episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen.
30. Murder in Mahim — Jerry Pinto.
31. Mallikarjun Mansur and Bhimsen Joshi on Spotify.
32. The New World Upon Us — Amit Varma on Alpha Zero.
33. Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match — Mike Klein.

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