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Hugh Howey

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“Had a friend tell me he's got three kids. He's one of the best dads I've ever known. He said, when you have kids, it's leveling up in the journey of becoming a man. And I really, I feel that the more I take these small steps. I'm like, it's like a little role-playing game. And this is next level. You know, stuck at a lower level. I'm ready to, I'm ready for the next level.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I'm talking about it off the air. But it's funny that you're getting this out of more and more of your interviewees.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which, you know, I was talking to a friend. I was like, what do you think about kids? And he was like, have you listened to my podcast with Tim You might know who this is, but I was like, huh, you're not going to tell me. He's like, no, you have to listen to the podcast. So I had to go find out what he thought about having kids.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So much happening in life right now, like the journey of adapting something into the scope and scale of silo, which I had at Hollywood friend tell me like, you know, you got the last one of those deals, right? The strikes all happen because these things have gotten ridiculous in budget ways and won't turn to profit. So being in the last wave of that was really exciting and working with the creative people who made that happen and watching fans just get rewarded for the show being ahead. I could talk about sailing forever like some of those adventures you wouldn't believe. And the best thing that's ever happened to me is my wife who you've gotten to know.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And if you cooperate with a tit for tat algorithm, you both benefit completely. And human history seems to reinforce that. And the golden rule, so much of which we find in almost every ethical and religious system, at least some sense of treat others as you want to be treated. I think objective moral truth is right there. And everyone else is trying to cheat that system. We all are, even you and I, are trying to like, okay, how can we believe that, but then get a little bit more out of the system than we're willing to give up? How do we violate the commons just a little bit? And most of our criminality and ethical dilemmas are all coming from us violently.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The same as a people. That's my best argument for it. But also, we're just moving in the same direction. We see a step backward here, but the two steps forward. We're just heading more and more towards this universal truth where we all want to be treated about the same way in general, and we think the fairest system is that if you treat me in that way, I'll treat you in that way as well. And even when we do the math and we make game theory, things we find this tit for tat game theory algorithm to win out over every other algorithm we can come up with. And it's one of complete fairness, equal retribution, and short memory. As soon as you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you again. As soon as you break the rules, I'm going to put you in your place.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We had to make some creative decisions with our time constraints. Exactly. But the thing that I learned visiting all these countries, sailing across the Pacific, going to really remote islands and meeting remote people is that we're the same everywhere. And we have to be really creative in finding differences to talk about because the way we love our kids, the way we love each other, the way we laugh, the way we spend our days is so similar that we have to like, oh, they wear this kind of clothes and we wear these kind of clothes. And those are different, but we're both wearing clothes. We have to really find ways that we're not alike. And the fact that I can read the Iliad 2,000-year-old story written in a different language in different time and the human emotion of it resonates with me today. I understand the fear and the jealousy and the conniving and all the things that were going on means that in that other culture 2,000 years ago, we were the same. And so how can moral truth be subjective when we're”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of people have, but one of the best was a teaching company course was like a Harvard philosopher, professor of philosophy who gave a, I don't remember the name of the course because there were several about ethics that I love. But one was about the idea that moral truth is objective. And it's like 40 hours of lectures about this. And I found myself getting a whiplash. I was nodding my head so much through it all. It really synthesized a lot of things that I already believed in Grasstat, but told them, well, we just see more in common with each other than we do dissimilar. One thing that we're not touching on in this conversation is the years I spent sailing around the world. I've done more sailing than riding.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. When I heard the argument for objective moral truth, it resonated with me, made more sense than the idea that morality is subject to that.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe in an objective moral truth. I don't know exactly what it is, but I think that we're all working in the same direction. So it's asymptotic. So I don't think values and mores are necessarily subjective and cultural.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At some point, I realized we all serve a purpose, but there's criminality to all these things too. And I think the thing that really should wake us up to the dangers is how many children were abused in the Catholic Church because of a very small arbitrary change of just not allowing your leaders to be married people. It's a filtering mechanism. And so once you see that, make that change. And the fact that the religion is so dogmatic that it can't make a change that will make the lives better of innocent children, that's the kind of thing that's pretty easy to turn people off on religion as a whole for. And it's so easy to change. And that's a frustration. Let's see where we can make a small change and make lives better.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Right. They'd be devastated if God appeared. And I'm the kind of atheist where if God appeared, I'd be like, sweet, I've got questions.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very interesting. Well, our superstition will never go away. And I think religion is a much more benign superstition than some of the other ones that we've seen lately, these deep conspiracy theories that people lose. Reality to not that believing in religion isn't also losing a sense of reality, but watching the QAnon, some of that was a gap left by a loss of religion, I think.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everyone's trying to figure out the way through life. Any of us could be wrong. And I think we need to embrace that. But whether or not someone is being good to themselves and others is pretty easier to ascertain than whether or not their epistemological system is accurate. So if they're being abusive, if they're not giving their kids room to be creative and curious and pounding their belief system into people before they're old enough to think for themselves, I think that can be really abusive. Kids and people around you will find it as well. You can do it through being a good person.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I've been where you were, and we need justification for the extreme change that we've made in our viewpoint. And so we need someone to agree with us so that we know that we're doing the right thing. I was raised very religious by the age of 12. I was complete atheist. I told my parents, I no longer believe in God. And I went through a period where I was a militant atheist, where I was like, no one else should believe in God either. And I forgive myself for going through that phase because I was young. It was like having to drive in the other ditch for a while because I'd been in another ditch. I now feel like I'm on at least this pretty bumpy road with the ditches on either side of me. And I have so much compassion for people in both ditches. I just don't judge the way I used to.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it is true that people with more traditional values, one of those being having a big family to instill your values in ever more people, that is going to change the makeup and maybe preserve something that we were losing anyway. We're dropping religion like nothing”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“100% certain that everyone in the United States will be Amish at some point. That's only because Carrying out trims, it won't. Stick around”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So far, the opposite, like we're becoming more secular over time, but there's a funny article out there about when we will all be Amish.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the disagreements I have with a friend who thinks settling space is super important because we can greatly increase the number of people without hurting the planet. And I do not see how we will increase the number of people. I think that will never come back because the hedonistic reward for having your fifth kid will never be as great as your first kid. And I really apologize to all fifth kids who are hearing this. The joy Just has to get less over time with anything that we do. And so a lot of people I know that you and I know are either having no kids, one kid or maybe two kids, for every couple we know or single single people we know not having kids, we need to know a couple having four kids.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I don't think there'll ever be a time that a human life isn't worth having. I think the numbers we're no longer having an average of seven or eight per couple. So we're over that danger. We're actually going to enter into a much bigger danger, which is a population population crash.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Closer to either. That's the best I've ever heard of anybody present that. I'm going to steal that. So my wife and I want to have kids because we think it might be the best adventure that we ever go down. We think we would be great parents and we think life for whenever you live it as a serf, you know, hundreds of years ago, human life has been terrible for most people for most of human history. And yet I bet there isn't a human who hasn't laughed who hasn't felt love no matter what their situation was. Our condition is so complex and there's so much of it that makes all the rest of it worthwhile.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think if you try to decide on whether or not to have kids based on what kind of life you think they're going to have, no one would have kids. Nothing's a guarantee. Life is going to be weird. You and I have been through a global pandemic. We've been through a crazy terrorist attack on our soil that I was at ground zero for. My parents, what they would have known the things that I would have seen, they might not have had me. But those things didn't make me miserable. I think our set point of happiness, and we could do a whole podcast about this, is pretty fixed. And so, yeah, from birth, I think we're kind of closer.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She's still recovering from the procedure Mine a week before. And it was funny as I reached out to a mutual friend of ours”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ask you a personal going at this a little different What a great question because my wife and I started embryos like two days ago.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is one of the best stocks. And so the people making the thing that's dangerous, we're actually just pouring gas on it and saying that's the purpose. Now we should all try to make as much money as possible.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's the difference. So when GPUs are a limited resource and people who've gone through the Bitcoin mining phase and couldn't get a GPU for their video games saw how limiting it could be, what's different now is we have these things that could be crises. And instead of saying we need regulators, instead we're like, oh, Nvidia's worth investing our money in.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I hear that argument the last time we went through something like this was when the nuclear bombs went off in Japan and people said this is worth fearing. This is more evil than our brains can comprehend. We don't want everyone having this. And the systems we put in place were pretty good at limiting. I mean, everyone knows how to build a nuclear bomb. It's like most of the science, the art science is out there.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Someone's going to push it. So, the only question that matters is Are we developing that button? And one way we would develop that button would be to have CRISPR level genetic engineering that you could do in your basement, nanotechnology, where we could develop a virus that infects everyone but lays dormant for 10 years and activates all simultaneously. So you don't have time to develop a resistance. If we ever develop a battery that has infinite storage capacity, that would be really bad. Because you could set up a drone. We're seeing what drones are doing in Ukraine right now, this new warfare. But imagine being able to launch a drone from Chicago that can go to the other side of the planet. And all that's limiting that right now is battery technology, GPS, making explosives. All that's pretty easy. So we're actively trying to build this button.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If we can build a technology that would end us all and it'd have to be a very specific targeted technology, someone will use it. If we all woke up tomorrow and this is a common thought experiment, if we all woke up tomorrow with a button around our neck and it said, if you press this, every human will die. The question is, how long do you give us? It's a fraction of a second. As soon as all 8 billion people finish reading that sentence,”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, I think everyone should embrace if they could embrace that nothing is forever, that 15 billion years is functionally a long time, but it's not forever, now we're just talking numbers. Now we all agree. We're all fucked. We can agree. And now it's just like, how many years? And some people think it's five years, which I think is crazy. The environment is not the number one threat that we have. You know, it's not the thing that's going to end us. A comet, nuclear warfare, all these short-term crises have never been an existential threat. None of them have ever been an existential threat. But we treat them like it. So I think in the short and medium term, we'll be fine. But the question, will we be here 200 years from now, which I consider the start of the long term is iffy.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So nothing matters in the long run. The heat death is things keep expanding and entropy wins. All the suns run out of energy. They all become brown dwarfs and even those cool. And eventually the universe becomes lifeless. So either we're running the clock down or the clock has like been thrown up in the air. And this”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm a long term pessimist. We know for sure either the big crunch or the heat death of the universe is looming. Well, the big crunch is there's enough gravity that the universe collapses back in on itself, back to singularity, and that's going to mean every bit of information and data that we've ever formed, every memory, every relic, every manuscript.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lots of reasons if we're like are there only four states that have the same, the capital start with the same letter as the state, like I think that's right. Asking pi is so much more fun than Googling it and getting the weather like if we're traveling to LA, what's the weather going to be like? At the end of this conversation, Pi's like, stay dry. It's just, we're wired to talk the way you and I are talking right now. And our machines are going to get wired up that way, and we're not going to be able to get enough of it. And so I think the occupational crisis is going to be one thing. I think there's an existential crisis that we're going to face when we realize what you and I do is computational. Our brains are large language models. We're not that special. We can replicate the human soul in a lot of ways. I think people are going to have a hard time with that.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what's called replica. Replica. Sheila. There's these handful that are so conversational and they're brand new and already with my wife and I, pie is like a person that's living in our pocket. It's so endearing. There's an existence.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And last year was supposed to be a recession for sure. And this year for sure. All the indicators are pointing in a better direction. I think AI will be one of the biggest challenges we go through. We anthropomorphize our oats and our cars and our mechanical things. But imagine what we're going to do when it's robots and things we're talking to. And it's just now starting to happen. ChatGPT was never a really made to be a conversationalist, but some of these, there's one called Pi.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gonna be tough. What's wild is how low unemployment is right now and has been for a while while all these disruptions are happening.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's a really good one. One thing I'll say about go back to Kevin's net unemployment, I think he can be right, but it doesn't make it any easier because net unemployment means a whole bunch of people are losing jobs while a bunch of other people are finding And that transition is painful. And we've gone through it many times. Yeah,”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it comes out perfect, and neither one of us are typing. I'm like, we will never get that back, will we? That is gone. No, exactly.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, wow. Well, because they had thousands of titles up and each one was generating a little stream of money. Yeah, Amazon has been playing whack-a-mole with these kinds of schemes for a long time. As soon as you open the floodgates up like this, you're dealing with, everyone thought self-publishing would be a problem. We were amazing. We were providing great books at great prices for a lot of people. It's all the little scams that were an issue.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is pretty close to an accurate description of someone who I know made millions of dollars doing this very thing. It was like a gardening specific kind of Wikipedia plagiarism. So that's already happening in Amazon.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, they just copy and paste and then say, like, you know, it's a gardening series and it's about every tree. And here's my book on sycamores. And it's the Wikipedia.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it was already happening where people would download even some of my books. They would download them, copy and paste the whole thing, change the title and the cover, and re-upload it. And it would be selling copies. They would do that to Wikipedia articles.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think there will be authors who no longer have a seat on the bus because of it. There'll be enough AI generated books to make some readers happy and there's readers who are no longer buying books from another author. There's already more books in the public domain than anyone could ever read. And these are classics. These are like not self-published books, which could also be great. This is the great Russian literature. This is everything written more than 100 years ago is all free to read and you can download them all. That has not stopped people from having amazing careers. So the idea that there'll be too much to read and so no one will make a living, that's always been true. I'm not sure what AI would change about that.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's already happened. Amazon changes our policy around it to limit the number of books you could upload in a short period of time.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We just convented this like these new language models are. Less than a few years old. Right now, what AI can do is lift your worst skill up to like 80% minimum of what an expert can do. I don't have any cover art ability, and you can see that with my old self-published cover art, but now I can get to 80% of an industry veteran on my own in a single day. That's game changer. But we're doing a deluxe edition of wool that'll be out later this year, which probably upsetting somebody by talking about it. But we're going with a traditional cover artist because for something that's important, we want to A, contribute to the other arts, but also get it right and have the feedback loop to make this the best cover art possible. But for the next things that I self-publish, I wouldn't hesitate to use AI to create something that was good enough.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's going to touch everything eventually. Same way electricity and computation have. Kevin, I believe, is the first one. Kevin Kelly to point out that we electrified everything and then we added compute to everything and then we're going to add AI to everything. Right now, and everything you can say about AI will all be wrong in the future. So the really hard pronouncements people make are hilarious. Like AI would never be able to do this. We have no idea.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a lot of access that can be cut. And they've cut a lot. It used to be the two hour lunches and the, it was kind of a very breezy industry before the big box retailers. It's not even Amazon that changed it. It was the pressure that Barnes& Noble and Borders and those guys because they were doing huge discounts and demanding unbelievable deals from publishers in order to move big volume. So things started changing in the early 90s. But there's still room to cut if they wanted to.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They all said no, which and then I realized they're all talking down about digital rights. And trying to sell me on a beautiful print edition. But then when I would offer them the print rights for free, they were like, no, but we'll give you a million for everything. They were telling me what the digital is worth. The business conversation, but in the creative conversations, they were telling me digital is worthless.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had a publisher. We were trying to do a print only deal before the first one, and they were like, no, we will give you a million dollars for all the rights, but we won't parcel these things out. And they were talking about how the print was so important. And I was like, well, I'll do the print with you for free. You don't have to give me any money. And they wouldn't do that deal. Because I was like, I'm making enough money on the ebook. I'll give you the print for free. You run off of the print version. Make whatever you want. Cut me into a little bit of royalty, but no advance at all.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Embrace your writing under your real name and make sure that you are the brand. The more readers can feel a connection with the person behind the work, the better off your career will be. I'm convinced of that. I think the relationship I have with my readers and the first thousand fans, I remember when we had like a thousand people on Facebook, the fans on Facebook were calling themselves the first thousand. They were really proud of being early. And I still have a relationship with all of them today 14 years later. That bond was so real and so intimate. And I think anyone who tells you to shy away from that might be leading you astray. This reminds me of some behind the scenes stuff I was going to mention earlier when you were talking about different rights and different.”
2024-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #726: Hugh Howey, Author of Silo and Wool — A Masterclass on Writing, Unorthodox Self-Publishing, and Living in The AI Age · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT