The Sam Altman Interview
You know him as the CEO of OpenAI — but he's also an avid writer.
We spoke not once but twice about how Sam captures ideas, clarifies his thinking, edits his writing, decides what to work on, and uses ChatGPT.
Timestamps:
1:47 Will LLMs change how we write?
8:39 How does Sam use ChatGPT?
11:26 How Sam became less anxious
17:24 Sam once dreamed of being a novelist
18:37 Lessons from Peter Thiel
21:35 Lessons from Paul Graham
26:02 The book Sam Altman wants to write
28:37 Advice for startup founders
30:20 How Y Combinator shapes OpenAI
35:55 How Sam chose to work on AGI
37:35 Writing strategy memos at OpenAI
41:34 Why isn’t ChatGPT a better storyteller?
44:20 Sam's obsessive note-taking method
47:12 Will AI put writers out of work?
Current: The Secrets of Suspense from an Investigative Journalist
Revised: Emmy Winning Journalist Reveals The Art of Storytelling
Current: Watch the best copywriter I know rewrite an ad TWENTY-TWO times
Revised: Copywriting Genius Rewrites Ad 22 Times in 10 Minutes
Current: Turn Your Knowledge into a Bestseller with Peter Attia | How I Write Podcast
Revised: Turn Your Brain Into A Bestseller | Peter Attia
Current: How Ben Thompson Built a Writing Empire Revised: How He Inspired A Generation of Writers
Thoughts? Happy to get some feedback on what I came up with.
@pontusab@supabase Woah, this looks cool. I'm probably gonna have to try this out now. I was looking at typesense and meilisearch, but I don't know if I want to set up that entire thing if supabase hybrid is good enough.