Fabrizio Rinaldi - March 23, 2021
Here's the new episode of a series of tiny interviews with our favorite thinkers, creators, writers, technologists.
It's a way to get a glimpse into their daily routines and information diets.
After Julian Lehr, we're joined this time by Nathan Baschez.
Hi! I’m Nathan, and I’m a co-founder of Every, a writer collective focused on business. We offer a bundle of newsletters and podcasts on everything from productivity to strategy and culture, created by some of the smartest people in tech.
I wake up at the last possible moment before I need to have a phone call or record a podcast 😆 I’m an incurable night owl. My schedule is something like this:
It’s weird, but it works for me!
I’m extremely inconsistent about what I read, and I like it that way. I get obsessed with something and consume it until I feel it has nothing left to offer, then I move onto the next thing. I think this is partly because I have ADHD, but also partly because of the nature of my work.
My reading time is mostly dedicated to exploring ideas that I might want to write about. So usually I’m more engaging with something I’ve pulled from a random corner of the internet than whatever is getting pushed to me today. (Except Twitter, of course.)
That being said, some consistently great sources:
Is it a conflict of interest if I say my wife Sonia? I don’t care! She legitimately has fire tweets 😅
Honestly, I really struggle with this.
I feel like part of my job is to understand what people are interested in, and to stay on top of what people are talking about. That means looking at Twitter. But I also know I do way too much of it and I’d be better served most of the time by reading a book. I have no easy answers.
I think for me it’s much easier to get focused later at night for some reason. My mind is calmer and I can get into a state of flow after a long day.