The Wisdom Wall
5 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“So the, my, my thesis about Pulitzers is that when a new media company wins a Pulitzer, you can just set the clock on layoffs.”
“also, right, I thought for two seconds, oh yeah, we should charge this as a product. And it's like, well, actually, if I built this in four hours, that's like not defensible. That is the least defensible thing in the world.”
“In journalism, there's sort of, at one end is gathering facts that are not on the internet, and putting them on the internet, and, and, and then there's a lot of other things, writing and producing in the middle, and at the other end is connecting with, is a human being who you trust connecting with another human…”
“this is actually like a common Silicon Valley misconception that we are like obsessed with clicks as opposed to interested in information.”
“Don't you think, though, that as a reporter, there's something like, like, there's a kind of news, my only real superstition, that there's a kind of news luck, and some people have it. That was that I had it. Like, sometimes you just wind up in a room. Somebody invites you to a thing. Who knows? I think, Jessica, you…”