Before I worked at the Washington Examiner, I was a research associate with Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute. Every day I produced a draft of the Economics21 Ebrief newsletter, which required compiling about 20 timely and interesting links a day. This was my responsibility alone, so for the year I worked there, I had to put together a draft the night before every weekday.

It took more than an hour every night to find links and format the newsletter. It was months until I got the process under an hour. In the morning, I spent another half hour inputting final edits from my boss, doing one last proofread, uploading the newsletter to the e21 website and tweeting out a link.