Reminds me of how Matt Levine writes: "Panic mode" is the default writing mode of journalists.
"Each weekday, Mr. Levine, 42, wakes up at 5 in the morning. He looks at what’s going on in the markets, scrolls through emails from readers and plugs into the chatter of early-to-work traders. Then he starts to write. Roughly 5,000 words later on a long-winded day, he files Money Stuff to his editor, and it’s sent to subscribers around noon."
Matt: "But mostly I have no repeatable process, I just wake up and panic until there’s a newsletter. I have been doing it long enough that the panic feels less overwhelming; I figure I have a good track record of producing a newsletter every day, so the odds that today’s the day it stops working are low. But I do text my friends most days saying “help I have nothing to write about” or “help I have forgotten how to write” or “help—today’s the day it stops working.”
Reminds me of how Matt Levine writes: "Panic mode" is the default writing mode of journalists.
"Each weekday, Mr. Levine, 42, wakes up at 5 in the morning. He looks at what’s going on in the markets, scrolls through emails from readers and plugs into the chatter of early-to-work traders. Then he starts to write. Roughly 5,000 words later on a long-winded day, he files Money Stuff to his editor, and it’s sent to subscribers around noon."
Matt: "But mostly I have no repeatable process, I just wake up and panic until there’s a newsletter. I have been doing it long enough that the panic feels less overwhelming; I figure I have a good track record of producing a newsletter every day, so the odds that today’s the day it stops working are low. But I do text my friends most days saying “help I have nothing to write about” or “help I have forgotten how to write” or “help—today’s the day it stops working.”
[1] Columnist Makes Sense of Wall Street Like None Other (See Footnote)—New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/business/matt-levine-bloomberg.html
[2] Icebreakers With...Bloomberg Columnist Matt Levine, https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/12/17/icebreakers-with-bloomberg-columnist-matt-levine