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 Juli 20251h 30min
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 Juli 20251h 42min
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 Juli 20251h 14min
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 Juni 20251h 29min
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 Juni 20251h 31min
Paul Harding: A New Way To Think About Writing | How I Write
I interviewed Paul Harding, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his very first novel Tinkers. Unlike most novelists, he’s not really interested in plots, and only halfway interested in characte...
11 Juni 20251h 30min
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 Juni 202544min
Ezra Klein: The Case Against Writing With AI | How I Write
Ezra Klein is one of the internet’s most influential journalists. He co-founded Vox in 2014, and it was there he really pioneered this new era of online journalism. Remember those Vox explainer videos...
28 Maj 202556min
