Before you borrow cash from a friend, decide which one you need most.
Never tell a person that their child is ugly. Every child is the trigger on the gun of their parent’s rage.
If you say, “I am only speaking the truth,” you can be sure that the child’s parent will just as truthfully amputate you from their life and throw shade at the memory of your name forever.
“The Proper Priorities of Government” is a beautiful child that lives in the brain of every citizen. And that child is uniquely their own.
Do you remember what I told you about children?
AI is the newest baby in every family.
I am a writer. My words are my children. If you tell me that your AI can replace me as a writer, I will know you to be a fool and a tragic waste of oxygen and skin.
Can AI write better than you? If your words are not bone of your bone, blood of your blood, and flesh of your flesh, then yes, it probably can.
When I began production on the “Great Writers Series,” I sent several of my friends a few of the AI-produced performances of the 8,000 grand passages of literature that I have laboriously transcribed from books over the past 50 years.
When I sent those music-enhanced performances, I pulled the triggers on the guns that are carried by all of the musicians in my life.
Shortly after being riddled with bullets,
I received this text from Ryan Deiss on December 26, 2025, at 7:24AM:
Paul Graham on why you shouldn’t write with Al:
“In preindustrial times most people’s jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be. It will be the same with writing. There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.”
This was my reply to Ryan’s text:
“Everyone loves AI to do the things they hate, but they hate AI when it does the things they love. I am no different. I think AI is dangerous and stupid and evil when it replaces writers. But I use it enthusiastically to make musical productions instantly possible. I would otherwise have had to spend many months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create with musicians what I can create with Suno.com in a day. Musicians are well within their rights to resent me and be disgusted with me when I use AI to replace them.”
@GreatWritersSeries will continue because it is important to me.
If you click the image at the top of this page, you will see another clickable image. Below that clickable image is one of the first Youtube shorts – formatted for your phone – that I will be uploading once a day for as long as I am able to do so.
If you click that performance and enjoy it, and would like to receive a new one each day, you can click through to Youtube and subscribe.
If you do not like the performance, that’s 100% okay as long as you don’t tell me about it.
All of my children are beautiful, almost as beautiful as yours.
Roy H. Williams
Bestselling author Michael Lewis spent decades doing what the sharpest business thinkers do. Questioning assumptions, navigating past blind spots, and revealing why conventional wisdom leads smart people astray. Lewis is the author of a remarkable run of business-themed classics. Two have been turned into Oscar-nominated Best Pictures.*
Lewis reflects on why true success derives from taking the long view rather than aiming for quick results in this exclusive episode of Monday Morning Radio. Doing the hard, unglamorous work others avoid can create an outsized, enduring advantage. Lewis’s conversation with roving reporter Rotbart was recorded when the author was honored as a Business News Visionary.
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*including Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, Flash Boys, The Big Short, Boomerang, The Undoing Project, and Going Infinite.