Ryan Holiday on The Economics of Book Writing, Why You’re Monetizing Your Media Business All Wrong, His Split with Tucker Max, and More
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What uh what do you do with your money? Yeah, I know you got a ranch. Uh y y I think you live. He's had that forever. So it's it's not like it wasn't like a hot uh like a luxury property or whatever. You actually live there because you wanted to live there. Sam Sam I think has some some similar Aspirations. Um but what do you do? Are you like I'm an investor, you just do something boring with your money, what do what do you with your work? Uh well I sp I spent a lot of it on this bookstore. Uh I I I bought two buildings in this in this small town of Bastrop. Uh originally was gonna be a bookstore and a coffee shop, now it's a bookstore and I rent out half of it to a uh a record store. But I wanted I needed like a space to do all my stuff. So up top is like my office.
My wife also wanted me to take all my books out of our house. Uh, so uh that that was part of it. It was like getting all the the shit out. Um But no, I don't really do anything I don't really do anything with it. I d I invest it. Um I'm I like investing in things. that are very different than internet things. So most of it's like in income producer.
How do you describe yourself? You know, I don't do it very well. Uh you you you nailed I I would sort of if I had to say what do I identify as, I would say I identify as a writer and then I I sort of have these other things that I do in That are somewhat related and somewhat unrelated. But like if I had to sort of only pick one thing or like what what do I feel like I was like meant to do it's it's writing. So I identify first as that.
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