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Positive Politics: Neil Thanedar on Building a Y Combinator for Politics

Neil Thanedar joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Positive Politics: A Proven Playbook to Get into Politics, Change Your Life, and Change the World—the book he decided to write in late 2024 and published in 2025, on a thousand words a week.

Neil explains why “books are a way to own an idea,” how the story of a 19-year-old who got a C on a paper and turned it into the 27th Amendment proves you don’t need to win an election to change the Constitution, and why he tells founders to pick one bill and run with it.

He gets specific about the Scribe process: the book coach who told him chapters one…

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