The speaker curates three types of content for creative work: industry newsletters like Not Boring and My First Million, deep-dive books on single subjects like salt or chips, and expert treatises like Vaclav Smil's energy work. Ideas from one domain often solve problems in another, creating high-leverage inspiration through cross-domain thinking.
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I really, I follow Not Boring on Substack. I find that there's a lot of value into what Patrick McCormick posts because he really covers industries and startups really well. He gives you the history, the strategy behind what they're doing. So it helps you understand the business as well. So definitely that's why it would definitely be on top of my head. I follow the podcast My First Million. So Sean Perry and Sam, I find I have really good hosts that I learn a lot from. So I will say that those are like really good podcasts that I like to follow on a daily basis. Even like Diary of a CEO, I think has a really good, a lot of information that are super helpful to apply on a daily basis. A lot of the content that I read now that I consume tend to be books about a single topic. So for example, like I read a book about salt or a book about chips. So I love books that I focus on one single topic so I can do a really deep dive on it. Yeah. Like right now I'm reading Vaclav Smil. He's like the world-renowned expert on energy. And so, so doing those deep dives is where I really get the most inspiration because I can really dive down into someone that is an expert about a single topic and really understand that topic in different angles. And through that, there's always moments where those different ideas sometimes converge and help different things that I'm doing. And I can borrow ideas from different things that I read about. So I think those are probably like the highest leverage thing I will say into what I'm doing.
