> I’ve authored 438 articles on economics, politics, statistics, book reviews, environmentalism, monetary regimes, or bitcoin in the last 3,000 days, published in [list 'em]

But honestly, I suspect you know best. group editing in public is impossible.

Scoresby

The second part is great. The first part is boring.

Undisciplined

In the 3,000-odd days since I published my first article for a popular magazine, I’ve authored 438 articles on economics, politics, statistics, book reviews, environmentalism, monetary regimes, or bitcoin. Some were read by the non-dead internet’s, let’s say, 1.5 readers; some were read by hundreds of thousands and drowned my Twitter mentions for weeks; some were academic articles for scholarly journals, others long-reads with hundreds of hours of work behind them. But the ones I’m most proud of were the ones where I dug out some numbers from an archive or database and presented novel data in support of some argument.

Writers with years of practice, or these days novices with a decent LLM, can produce mediocre, bland, seemingly authentic prose. But uncovering and making sense of raw data, trudging through spreadsheets in search of relevant statistical information to support or triangulate an issue, that’s unbeatable.

the_stacker_muse

econ

That OWID Gig: Stackers, Help Me Write?

denlillaapan

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> In the 3,000-odd days since I published my first article for a popular magazine, I’ve authored 438 articles on economics, politics, statistics, book reviews, environmentalism, monetary regimes, or bitcoin. Some were read by the non-dead internet’s, let’s say, 1.5 readers; some were read by hundreds of thousands and drowned my Twitter mentions for weeks; some were academic articles for scholarly journals, others long-reads with hundreds of hours of work behind them. But the ones I’m most proud of were the ones where I dug out some numbers from an archive or database and presented novel data in support of some argument.

> Writers with years of practice, or these days novices with a decent LLM, can produce mediocre, bland, seemingly authentic prose. But uncovering and making sense of raw data, trudging through spreadsheets in search of relevant statistical information to support or triangulate an issue, that’s unbeatable.