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by gwern
848 days ago
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I wasn't able to find that quote myself, and I was suspicious because I've skimmed _The Publisher_ in the past (trying to verify a quote about why _Time_ magazine picked red) and the Gemini anecdote doesn't sound like the author or Luce/Hadden. So I pinged the author on Twitter with your comment. He confirms that the anecdote was confabulated by Gemini, was based on the pg141 story, and he's edited OP to note the error: https://twitter.com/danshipper/status/1761135157036097608 |
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> The general thrust of the idea is true—Luce did run both the editorial and business sides of Time—so it is pointing me in the right direction.
My skim of the book suggests that's being too generous. Where is the "I can do this myself syndrome"?
The p 141 anecdote suggests it equally applies to both Hadden and Luce ("Hadden, the publisher, moonlighted as an editor, so Luce, now the editor, found himself moonlighting as publisher"), and that Luce had business experience by this time (he had been doing it for years, and was good at it; p104), and that contra Gemini, Hadden did not provide that advice, nor would Luce have thought it valid ("because he felt it necessary to compensate for Hadden’s inattention").
The author continues:
> So, Gemini is not perfect. You do need to check its work. But if you're careful it's a powerful tool.
I feel like that's a deliberate misdirection. Of course it's not perfect. That's never been the question. The questions are, how much do you need to check it is work, and how careful do you need to be?
I noticed https://every.to/about does not list a fact checker.