Mentions personal use of Gwern's book reviews.

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…I think if you're starting from scratch, there's two useful hacks. One is podcasting, because you don't need to have some super original new take. You can just interview people who do, and you can leverage their platform. And two is writing book reviews. Again, because you have something to react to rather than having to come up with a unique worldview of your own. There's probably other things, and it's really hard to give advice in advance. Just try things. But, those I think are just, like, good, cold starts. The book reviews is a good suggestion. I actually use, like, Gwern's book reviews as a way to recommend books to people. By the way, this is a totally under-supplied thing. Because if anybody has book reviews. Jason Furman is this economist who has like a thousand Good Reads reviews. And I probably have visited his Good Reads on a hundred independent visits. Same with the Gwern book reviews or something, right? So book reviews are a very under-supplied thing, if you're looking to get started making some kind of content.…

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