I said yes.Īlthough I knew it would be hard, and I knew that it might not work, I could also see that it might be the most interesting thing I ever did. I was also just about to have my first kid and it seemed like it would be terribly difficult to manage a newborn and a new kind of book… particularly one that required me to read something like 20,000 pages of legal documents just to get started. And frankly, it was personally quite risky… to be writing about a powerful gossip merchant and a right-wing billionaire who had just shut down a media outlet he didn’t like. There were more reasons to say no than yes: It was outside my wheelhouse it would be a ton of work it would be the kind of project that would upset a lot of people. The whole point-of life, of working out, of work-is to push yourself, and to grow as a result of pushing against and through that resistance.Ī couple years ago, after a book signing, someone proposed to me that I might write a book about the billionaire Peter Thiel’s conspiracy against Gawker Media and its founder, Nick Denton. It’s like lifting weights: if you can do it without trying, you’re not going to get any stronger.
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