Open Loops Are Energy Suckholes (And Other Short Stories)
Oh, hi friends!
What’s bubbling under the surface of your day-to-day?
These are the open loops, the lingering emails, the really-should-but-haven’t-yets.
These unfinished tasks are latent little energy suckers.
Right now, when the working world is slowly shutting its eyes, is a good time to pinpoint and zap them altogether.
(Mine are boring things like unresolved travel plans, opening a new checking account, following up on invoices, or figuring out if that editor still wants the story we discussed three months ago—Adam, do you?!)
What are your open loops? Can you close just one today?
“You can sit there and let something kill you, or you can take action,” Mr. Scott said in his no-nonsense way. “I took action.”
"And so began a race to pull off something never before attempted in Hollywood: revisiting a finished movie, reassembling major members of the cast, refilming crucial scenes, re-editing many sequences, retooling the marketing campaign — and doing it all at the last possible minute. Mr. Scott and others worked 18-hour days as they rushed to finish in nine days what would typically have taken at least a month."
And now I want to see All the Money in the World just to witness if Ridley Scott—who’s 80 years old!—pulled off the feat of inserting Christopher Plummer into Kevin Spacey’s role. (h/t Brother Eric)
Fascinating story of what you can get done when under the wire.
Calling All Food and Travel Fans
Roads & Kingdoms, which has won a bunch of awards and is partnered with CNN Travel and Anthony Bourdain, is hiring an associate editor to work out of their Dumbo office in Brooklyn. They say they’re looking for someone to help shape their editorial voice. If I was applying for this kind of idea-generating job, I’d try to make my cover letter have a voice and perspective. And I’d pitch a couple of relevant ideas or series as well, to show that I was familiar with their work, but also able to take it to the next level. Don’t make a hiring editor read between the lines of your experience and imagine what you could do. Tell them what you will do.
Anyway, good gig if you can get it. So…go get it.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara