David Perell ✓

@david_perell · New York, NY · joined 19 Jan 2011

"The Writing Guy" | Christian | Host: How I Write Podcast | I tweet about writing, beauty, and architecture | My writing: https://t.co/SOE9HtxXdi

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5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	27 962	22 338	1.25×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.83%	6.70%	0.87×
Engagement rate	0.72%	1.18%	0.61×

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R.F. Kuang has written seven books, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and trained at some of the world's top universities: Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. Her wisdom-per-word ratio is also off the charts. Some highlights from our conversation: 1) Emotions are like colors. Mix 309.9K views · 1.5K likes · 178 reposts · 24 replies 02 Sep 2026 We don't write much on buildings anymore. Architecture used to be more symbolic, and our highest ideas were expressed in words and images. So what happened? One explanation is that in the early 20th century, there was an explicit movement to get rid of ornamentation on https:/ 16.8K views · 93 likes · 4 reposts · 19 replies 27 Aug 2026 Matt Haig is famous for writing "The Midnight Library" which sold more than 10 million copies and has more than 2.5 million reviews on Goodreads. He unapologetically writes for a big audience. That's a taboo thing to say in the writing world even though basically every writer ht 20.2K views · 92 likes · 9 reposts · 15 replies 26 Aug 2026 The decline of beauty in everyday life shows up in even the smallest things, like tickets, where we’ve let our obsession with efficiency win out over personality and artistic expression. Like the ticket from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which I've shared in the first https 785.5K views · 10.1K likes · 1.1K reposts · 154 replies 26 Aug 2026 Our kids will ask themselves if something was written before 2023 whenever they read because it’ll go down as the last year in human history when you could basically guarantee anything you read was written by a human, not a machine 28K views · 269 likes · 23 reposts · 38 replies 25 Aug 2026

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