It is easier to create the beast than it is to feed it

Chaotic neutral technorati. Hard determinist machiavellian. Tight aggressive numbers man. Backbench electoral plumber. Black hat. Black tie. Damn good too

In 2001 I was a freshly-minted college graduate pitching a “web exclusive” series to people who have been doing their jobs longer than I had been alive. I was hilariously out of my depth

This doesn’t mean I was wrong but I was missing the perspective of feeding the beast

A newsroom editor hit me with this. His reference was to people who have ideas for a repeating series but don’t think past the first story