How Dickie Bush went from 5 subscribers to 1000+ subscribers in 29 countries within 10 months by sharing his favorite books, articles, and podcasts.
This episode happened because I got lucky :D I was scrolling Twitter and saw Dickie’s tweet. He basically said he was available for 3 hours the next day and was looking for ideas. I asked him to come up on the podcast and within 24 hours, we were on call. The magic of the internet :)
Dickie has an interesting story. He started writing a curation of his favorite podcast episodes, book notes, and articles on his newsletter, Dickie's Digest, at the beginning of 2020. He started with 5 subscribers and now has 1000+ subscribers from 29 countries in just 10 months. He writes awesome tweet threads, read by Naval Ravikant, and Tim Ferriss, to name a few, and just started a community for writers last week that already has 100+ members the last time I checked. We talked about
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Here are the resources I went through during researching Dickie.
https://www.dickiebush.com/books - Dickie writes detailed book notes. I relied heavily on these to ask questions during the interview and since I too read tons of books, it was cool to learn some of the same principles from Dickie’s perspective.
https://twitter.com/dickiebush - It’s weird to rely on Twitter for an interview. But Dickie writes these awesome threads that I couldn’t ignore. Also, since I’m just learning to use Twitter effectively, I wanted to learn from Dickie, how he curates content so effectively and writes these cool threads. And if Naval and Tim share his stuff, it must be very interesting :) Got to learn a lot during the session.
https://dickiebush.substack.com/ - I went back and read every single edition of the newsletter before the interview. They’re short, actionable, and resourceful. Since Dickie curates content, I also have a long list of podcast episodes and articles I need to consume.
Last week I shared my reading list on Reddit and it went kinda viral on r/entrepreneur before getting removed. Gotta be careful next time. But it drove a decent amount of listeners to Corey’s episode, so it was probably worth it.
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