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Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication times?

Has anyone asked the Money Stuff author?




>Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication times?

The linked post shows that the articles are getting longer. Money stuff becomes more and more relevant and publishes longer and longer articles, requiring linearly more time to read-through pre-publishing. Assuming that the authors workload scales linearly with the length of his publications, you can derive the respective posting-times scaling along.


The publishing times jump around a lot less than the lengths.


I don’t think there’s a great explanation for it being linear. But if you ask him I expect you’d get some combination of:

- writing it in a mad frantic rush[1] every day and just getting slower over time

- it being harder to write novel things, or there being more to read in the morning

- family life, eg he has a toddler and would work in the early morning so maybe helping with the morning rush or going to bed later as the kid gets a bit older.

- covid breaking the usual schedule of ‘work frantically in the morning then come to the office to chat to colleagues

- linear increase in time spent reading fan mail in the morning

[1] I think he’d definitely say something like this.


- Linearly more previous episodes of Money Stuff he might have to refer back to


Since the data used the emails as source, could it be caused by the increasing size of subscribers in the mailing list?


If you read the section at the bottom about how the data was assembled, you'll see that the timestamps come from the Bloomberg website and not emails.


I haven't, but I look forward to reading his response in Monday's column!


He cited it at the end of Thursday's column, commenting "I'm doing my best!"




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