Sean Platt and Johnny Truant are prolific authors - their fiction is ambitious, world building ingenious and fully realized, and approach beyond innovative. They together the authored one of my favorite sci-fi series of all time,The Beam.

Interestingly, they write as a team -  more like founders than the monolithic writer of old. By collaborating they can divide up responsibility for plot beats, world building, and narrative vs. character, dialogue, and characterization. While common in startup and the business world, this is ground-breaking in the world of fiction. Their unique approach to writing have lead them to publishing over 10,000,000 words.

We'll talk about his world building of the future, the business of writing, lessons learned, and their experience as entrepreneurs in an artist-driven market.

Daniel Karlin is a lifelong founder who's worn many hats: from being a serial founder in Argentina for 10 years to being an executive in the US. Randomly enough, we also both had the same co-founder in past, separate, startups!

Guillermo is a deep thinker about geopolitics, international relations, and power. His blog “The Outpost” is one of the most thoughtful around, and a refreshing break from the parade of Americans that dominate geopolitics.

Read his blog here: https://the-outpost.net​
Some particularly great posts of his:
1. https://the-outpost.net/2020/04/16/vo...​
2. https://the-outpost.net/2020/12/31/sm...​
3. https://the-outpost.net/2020/11/22/se...​

Guillermo brings an especially unique perspective on Spanish and European power, how European states relate to the American Empire, all infused with a deep sense of history, time, and place.