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Get in touch with the guest, Charles Chu:  via his website his Patreon page via [Twitter] 3 or on [Medium] 4.  RESOURCES:  Richard Feynman's bird story Mental Models, Dragonfloxes, and How to Think Real Good Charle's best of My favorite tweet by Charles The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Sunk costs Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Gary Klein's books - known for the cognitive models Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock,  Dan Gardner Farnam Street blog

Get in touch with the guest, Charles Chu: <ul> <li>via his <a href="https://thepolymathproject.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>his <a href="https://www.patreon.com/charleschu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon page</a></li> <li>via [Twitter] <a href="https://twitter.com/mmeditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3</a></li> <li>or on [Medium] <a href="https://medium.com/@mmeditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">4</a>.</li> </ul> RESOURCES: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Feynman's bird story</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/mental-models-dragonfloxes-and-how-to-think-real-good-9c6dbe8fde7f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mental Models, Dragonfloxes, and How to Think Real Good</a></li> <li><a href="https://thepolymathproject.com/best/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charle's best of</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/mmeditations/status/910718865109217280" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My favorite tweet by Charles</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theceolibrary.com/the-righteous-mind-why-good-people-are-politics-by-religion-and-politics-14101.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt</a></li> <li><a href="https://seths.blog/2015/02/the-truth-about-sunk-costs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sunk costs</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theceolibrary.com/thinking-fast-and-slow-151.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/36825.Gary_Klein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gary Klein's books - known for the cognitive models</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/08/14/darwin-list-pros-and-cons-of-marriage/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786560.Gut_Feelings?ac=1&amp;from_search=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecasting?from_search=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner</a></li> <li><a href="https://fs.blog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Farnam Street blog</a></li></ul>

Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft. Episode 27 with Charles Chu – non-fiction writer &amp; Medium top contributor “You need to do a little guerrilla warfare as a new writer.”  Episode 27 – Charles Chu – Show Notes  Starting with an emotion or aesthetic in essays and non-fiction Walking as a ritual and Japanese coffee As a Chinese American growing up in a white culture Psychology first – consistency, then building on improving writing practice Writing for the internet; how digestible is the writing? Trial and error approach John McPhee, On Writing Well by William Zinsser, copywriting Moving into fiction; the Year of 100 Rejections Gene Wolfe, Haruki Murakami, Ken Liu Juggling lots of projects to balance out the failures Ray Bradbury inspiring the year of 100 rejections Tips on how to get stories featured on Medium  “I grew as a child questioning where my place was.” “Visualising things from the reader’s perspective.” “Reframing failure as something I should try to do.”   Links  Charles Chu The Polymath Project The Year of 100 Rejections    The post #27 – Charles Chu – Write Through The Roof appeared first on .

Welcome to Write Through The Roof, the podcast for writers who want to improve their craft. <h5>Episode 27 with Charles Chu – non-fiction writer &amp; Medium top contributor</h5> “You need to do a little guerrilla warfare as a new writer.” <h5>Episode 27 – Charles Chu – Show Notes</h5> <ul> <li>Starting with an emotion or aesthetic in essays and non-fiction</li> <li>Walking as a ritual and Japanese coffee</li> <li>As a Chinese American growing up in a white culture</li> <li>Psychology first – consistency, then building on improving writing practice</li> <li>Writing for the internet; how digestible is the writing? Trial and error approach</li> <li>John McPhee, On Writing Well by William Zinsser, copywriting</li> <li>Moving into fiction; the Year of 100 Rejections</li> <li>Gene Wolfe, Haruki Murakami, Ken Liu</li> <li>Juggling lots of projects to balance out the failures</li> <li>Ray Bradbury inspiring the year of 100 rejections</li> <li>Tips on how to get stories featured on Medium</li> </ul> “I grew as a child questioning where my place was.” “Visualising things from the reader’s perspective.” “Reframing failure as something I should try to do.” <h5>Links</h5> <ul> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@mmeditations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charles Chu</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/the-polymath-project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Polymath Project</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/the-year-of-100-rejections-my-annual-learning-project-67eb3af977cb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Year of 100 Rejections</a></li> </ul> The post <a href="http://madeleinedeste.com/2018/04/22/27-charles-chu-write-through-the-roof/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#27 – Charles Chu – Write Through The Roof</a> appeared first on <a href="http://madeleinedeste.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>.

#27 – Charles Chu – Write Through The Roof