Nate Silver: preference

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…Now, you’ve run FiveThirtyEight. Now your newsletter has evolved into being a true business. Do you seek to hire top poker players, or you avoid them like the plague? Like, one is enough. “I’m enough. We don’t need any more of that skill. Get lost, fellow.” I would, for sure. Poker players are sometimes a little bit lacking in organization, and probably I’m a little bit lacking [laughs] in organization. Poker players are people who are sometimes a little bit irreverent, which is a quality I like. The elections analyst I hired now — he’s great. Eli never failed to return a text message within 15 minutes or something like that. I don’t know when he sleeps. I need somebody like that because I’m running all over the place, and I can run a little hot and cold and be a little bit moody. I think you want someone who’s a little bit more steady for the newsletter. I think also the writing skills are very important. I don’t know if this is becoming more important or less important in the world of ChatGPT, and so forth. Working on the book and then the newsletter, just to write every day, I feel like you can get 2x or 3x faster at writing, literally, if you just get a lot of reps in and things like that. Sure.…

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