Show Notes
Daisy Alioto is a journalist and the CEO of Dirt Media. “I don't think I was ever super precious about my writing, but if I was, I'm zero percent precious about it now. Every time I write for Dirt, it saves the company money. ... Nothing will make you sit down and write 800 words in 20 minutes than just needing to get it done. And that is a change that I've seen in myself. I would encourage everyone to be less precious about their writing.” Show notes:
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00:00 Dirt
09:00 "Marie Colvin’s Private War" (Marie Brenner • Vanity Fair • Jul 2012)
09:00 A Private War (Acacia Filmed Entertainment, Savvy Media Holdings, Thunder Road Pictures • 2018)
05:00 Airmail
11:00 "Pretend it’s a living" (Dirt • Jan 2021)
15:00 Prune
16:00 Hung Up (Hunter Harris)
16:00 Maybe Baby (Hayley Nahman)
16:00 Today in Tabs (Rusty Foster)
16:00 Blackbird Spyplane (Jonah Weiner and Erin Wylie)
16:00 Singal-Minded (Jesse Singal)
17:00 "The Complete History & Strategy of LVMH" (Acquired • Feb 2023)
24:00 "Grizzly man" (Amelia K. • Dirt • Jun 2023)
24:00 "The Question of U" (Amelia K. • Dirt • Nov 2023)
25:00 "Diary of a chess tournament" (Akram Herrak • Dirt • Nov 2023)
25:00 "The sound of your voice" (Joann Plockova • Dirt • Nov 2023)
25:00 "For the love of chickens" (Tove Danovich • Dirt • Sep 2023)
26:00 "Bad waitress" (Becca Schuh • Dirt • Jun 2023)
28:00 "Užupis Utopia" (Playboy • Dec 2019)
35:00 Someone Who Isn’t Me (Geoff Rickly • Rose Books • 2023)
37:00 Fragantica
37:00 "Bottle Elizabeth Taylor" (Daisy Alioto • Dirt • Jun 2023)
39:00 The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption (Katy Kelleher • Simon & Schuster • 2023)
41:00 Scent + Song (Vivian Medithi)
44:00 Axios
44:00 The Information
44:00 Punchbowl News
44:00 The Ankler
44:00 Semafor
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