Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 31, 1970
People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going to invest in something where you'r….
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter ….
I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. An….
I sound like an evangelist or something..
I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something..
And my wife is - you know my wife, Hanna Rosin - it's hard, there's no doubt. We have three kids, and it's a pain. I'm away a lot and it's hard on he….
I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the - you know, any of the 96 ….
А weekly column is really tough..
I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And ….
Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic s….
Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was….
It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington..
When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up..
So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps h….
The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successf….
I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and wh….
What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places..
I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. Bu….
That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follo….
People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss..
I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend. I'm not going to be w….