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Dwarkesh Podcast Progress Update - by Dwarkesh Patel

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I get to read whatever interests me. Then I get to ask every question I’ve accumulated to the world's smartest person on that topic. Not only that, but there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who appreciate the output of this process and get some kind of value out of it. In hindsight, I keep forgetting how many times I almost quit the podcast to start (without loss of generality) a GPT wrapper. I'm reminded of this every time I talk to a friend who knew me a year ago, and they say, "Good to see the podcast is doing well. I remember you telling me you were gonna quit that and do something else. Still planning on doing that?" I had put off applying to jobs before college ended, so when I hit graduation, I was totally unsure of what to do next. Around this time, Anil Varanasi, who was apparently one of the few hundred listeners of my show at the time, asked me how much it would cost for me to do the podcast/blogging stuff full time for 6 months. I said $10,000 (which in my min

Blog Dwarkesh Podcast Progress Update "I was 2 months away from quitting the podcast for 2 years." Dwarkesh Patel Aug 20, 2024 265 29 31 Share Can we just take a step back and acknowledge how crazy it is that this is my job? I get to read whatever interests me. Then I get to ask every question I’ve accumulated to the world's smartest person on that topic. Not only that, but there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who appreciate the output of this process and get some kind of value out of it. In hindsight, I keep forgetting how many times I almost quit the podcast to start (without

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