Adam Mastroianni

About this episode

Adam Mastroianni is the creator of the hit Substack Experimental History and our definition of an unLLMable writer. In this conversation, he talks about how he knows when an idea is actually interesting, why having a machine as a competitor has clarified the kind of writer he wants to be, what reading Moby Dick taught him, and why some obvious things have never actually been said. You can watch full conversation on YouTube and thanks to Granola , you can chat with the conversation here . Also, Adam’s debut book, The Strangest Idea in the World , is coming soon, and it’s one of three books we can’t wait to get our hands on (the two others are Robert Greene’s book on the sublime and Kyle…