I chatted with Habib Fanny, sock connoisseur, Quora top-writer, and author of A Gazelle Ate My Homework, and we discussed:

3:10 - What originally drew him to Quora, and how he got started contributing to that site.
7:37 - How writing about atheism helped him build his initial following.
12:33 - How writing consistently has forced him to adjust his writing style and made him a more compelling storyteller.
16:45 - His process for finding questions and topics to write about.
25:11 - The story behind his first book, Let’s Talk Politics.
31:58 - How he used stories that he shared on Quora in order to develop his memoir, A Gazelle Ate My Homework.
35:56 - The process for translating short stories and posts on Quora into much longer, memoir-length pieces.
43:52 - Who should be using Quora (and who shouldn’t be).
48:12 - Why he doesn’t think he could repeat his success today.
51:54 - On his strange infatuation with socks.
53:18 - Why Quora is perhaps his favorite investment of time and energy over the years.

Items we chatted about:
Follow Habib on Quora. https://www.quora.com/profile/Habib-Fanny
His book, A Gazelle Ate my Homework on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0849Q463D/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
His answer, What were the main reasons for the American Civil War? https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-main-reasons-for-the-US-Civil-War/answer/Habib-Fanny?ch=10&share=b5411a7a&srid=dMmV

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