Writing Excuses · Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
20.24: An Interview with Charles Duhigg
June 15, 2025·36 min·3 clips
Charles Duhigg spent a year writing a 76-page proposal to show publishers exactly what his book would be like.
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A practical conversation about craft, communication, and the discipline of deliberate practice.
Charles Duhigg comes across as a journalist for The New Yorker and the author of The Power of Habit and Super Communicators, but the real emphasis stays on a simpler point: communication and craft are made through skills, not magic.
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