Marginalia
Notes from the desk
On ghostwriting, content and the strange business of writing under other people’s names.
Your CEO does not have time to write. Good.
The best executive content comes from people too busy to write it. A defense of the notes app full of unwritten op-eds.
The em dash did nothing wrong
Everyone is hunting punctuation. The machine is hiding somewhere else entirely.
What award judges actually read
Your nominee’s life work gets about four minutes. Here’s where most submissions spend them badly.