219 Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2021-11-30
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“I'm gonna make the show I wanna make, and the viewer is the person I need to make happy." There is an…”
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Focus
“That addictive personality was just all focused on jujitsu.”
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People
“And then what also people notice around this time is just like, these are your people.”
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Persistence
“I think it's in the book, Hard Thing, Hard Thing About Hard Things.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“He said this 300 years ago, that time, d- don't squander time because time is the stuff that life is made of.”
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