Dina Lovinsky -Write Like A Human
Dina Lovinsky is a Russian-born, SF-based writer. She is also the ghostwriter of the recent NYT and WSJ bestseller Tony Fadell’s, Build - An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.
This is a fun episode.
We discuss
- Dina discusses being born in St Petersburg, Russia before moving to the US and growing up in Boston.
- Being conditioned by her parents with a sense of invincibility.
- She discusses her parent's experience of being Refusniks in Soviet-period Russia.
- Her father's experience working for the Mafia.
- She describes her Star Trek life lesson and developing her superpower to never blame others for how she feels.
- We discuss how two scientists produced a child with a talent for the arts and English.
- Dina explains how she developed her love of reading and developing her curiosity.
- She discusses her school life and not working hard.
- Dina explains how her path led her to San Francisco to a job in publishing before moving into product management in tech startups.
- She explains how her focus shifted to writing all content for the companies she worked.
- We discussed how she developed her copywriting skills.
- Dina explains her approach to writing, her disorganization, and procrastination.
- Dina describes her work with Tony Fadell and how she came to ghost-write his book Build,
- She explains how she and Tony arrived at the structure and wrote the book during the pandemic.
- Dina describes how people can use the book as a mentor in a box.
- We discuss the emergence of AI and the impact and threat to writers
- Dina describes her hopes for the next ten years
- She answers the quick-fire questions
Social Links
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Build - An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.
Tenth of December George Saunders
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