I used my art history education that way for a little less than two years, and then I ended up at the London School of Economics. I worked for an art dealer in New York, I apprenticed with a cabinet maker in New Jersey, and I led teenage girls in tours through Europe. However, I enjoyed it so much that I decided to try to write on top of everything else I was doing. I asked him, 'What do you think of the writing and the thesis?' In response, he told me, 'Never try to make a living at it.' He was great, and the writing was not that good. This was because fewer people were being hired and the people in the tenured jobs were never going to leave, so there were not going to be any jobs. However, my thesis advisor told me, 'You do not have much of a future here.' He was being kind, but he said that the entire art history profession was collapsing. I enjoyed art history so much, that once I finished my thesis, which was the first serious piece I had ever written, I wanted to keep doing that. Instead, I just fell in love with art history, and I did not know where that was going to take me. Michael Lewis: I was not studying for an occupation. Could you talk about where your interest in writing began? Peter High: I wanted to begin with the start of your career as an author. To read future articles in this series, please follow me on on Twitter.

To listen to past interviews with the likes of former Mexican President Vicente Fox, Sal Khan, Sebastian Thrun, Steve Case, Craig Newmark, Stewart Butterfield, and Meg Whitman, please visit this link. This is the 33rd interview in the Tech Influencers series. (To listen to an unabridged podcast version of this interview, please click this link. I try to encounter experiences in print, on the internet, at dinner parties, and at conferences.' No one can argue with the results. I just wander, and I feel as if I am a wanderer in the world. As for his process of identifying topics to write about, he notes, 'The process is so messy that no business school or writing program would teach it. We discussed the sources of his confidence, why this native of New Orleans chose the Bay Area as his base of operations, how, though he is not working on a book at present, he believes he may have a book in him about New Orleans. I met with Lewis at his office, which is in a small guest house on his property in Berkeley, California.

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