I am looking for an intern/apprentice to work directly for me in LA. And potentially another one who would work remotely from wherever you live. This would be high-level Hollywood and edgeconomy stuff – but totally training-oriented. I won’t make you get coffee or answer phone calls.

Then I am also looking for someone who already understands the internet side and has a fairly extensive background in writing. It would be a full-time, legit salary job for an enormously successful entrepreneur (worth let’s say $300 million) in Los Angeles. This is incredibly serious so we either need to have talked before and the only reason we shouldn’t have is because you’ve been too busy doing it. Just shoot me a reminder with your stuff if you’re interested in doing what I do for Robert Greene, Tucker Max and TheExecutive rolled into one position.

I know these open casting calls typically deter the people that would actually be perfect for this kind of thing. I know I’ve never responded to one. So I want this to be a little bit different. Do NOT send me your resume.

I need links to ANY of your online presences, blogs, Wikipedia, messageboard accounts, delicious, Amazon.com history, RSS reader – whatever YOU think is important. If you send me a screenshot of something in Internet Explorer, don’t expect a response. If you’ve emailed me before, let me know. I’d like to know where you went or are going to school. I NEED to know where you currently live. (If you’re near LA you get a huge bump). Send me something that says something about you as a person because that’s the only thing that really matters – the rest can be worked around.

Both of these are extremely huge opportunities. If I hadn’t just settled into the perfect situation, I would personally consider taking the second one myself and the first is exactly what I was offered roughly a year ago. I wish I could go into more detail by I can’t. Email me your stuff and if it’s a match, we’ll go forward and I’ll tell you the rest. I’ve never done anything like this before so if the smarter, older people reading this blog have any advice I would love to hear it.

One last thing:The more reluctant you are to respond to this, the more likely I want to hear from you – and the more perfect you are for what I have to offer in exchange. If you read my blog and think “Oh I’m just like him” please don’t email me. The people I want to hear from are the ones who nod in agreement at the ideas I’m struggling with, move on and continue on with their life. For example, almost everyone who comes up to Tucker either mentions drinking, chicks or some obscure reference from the messageboard. A person who was healthy in any of those areas wouldn’t make that mistake. I don’t want to work with another version of myself (and neither will the other company), I want someone who is on the same wavelength.

In six months you will have discarded most of what you claim is important now. So shut up. More listening, more learning. Less conclusions and less interrupting.

Spending time in an office in Hollywood has helped me figured out why people make so many awful decisions. No one shuts up. Ever. They’re always on the phone. Always bullshitting. Always setting up side-meetings and lunches and drinks and dinners. No one ever takes time to think. They’re too fucking busy.

From what I’ve seen business is as much a creative art as writing or drawing. It takes concentration and inspiration. School was the same way for me. Almost ever paper I wrote for class was finished in my head before I sat down at the computer. Even if I wasn’t that far along, I’d at least wrestled with the big idea over and over. It’s not really something you can teach – you’re either the kind of person who uses their mind for thinking or you walk around empty-headed and consumed trivial nothings.

The former requires silence. It means doing things that jog your inspiration like reading or running or relaxing. An office facilitates almost none of those things. I like listening to the same song on repeat, often 20 or 30 times in a row. It sort of allows me to separate the right and left brain – the music keeps one occupied while the other comes up with ideas. Mostly though, it’s about creating a space that you can step in and be creative

Frank Lucas called this “backtracking.” He’d lock himself in a room, pull the blinds and tune everybody out. He’d look forward and inward and outward and just think. That’s where he came up with the Cadaver Connection – importing heroin directly from South East Asia for a tenth of the cost in imitation coffins that they’d sneak on US Army jets. John Boyd called it his “draw down” period and it’s where all his big ideas came from – EM Theory, Destruction and Creation. Both of them relied on introspection to create innovation.

From meditative isolation comes clarity. In the office though, I get so fucking frustrated that I have to leave – I just can’t deal with all the waste. But I do leave and jam in little pockets where I can take the time to think. No one is ever going to ‘give’ you that space, no one will ever drive you there and drop you off and hope you come back with something great. You have to demand it, steal it, fight for it.

If you stop even for a second – which I have before – it’s really fucking hard to get back.