I came across this clip from CNN about the fact checking team for the ESPN show, Pardon the Interruption. PTI is a sports discussion show where 2 people, normally sportswriters Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, debate the sports topics of the day. At the time, Tony Reali had a segment at the end of the show to make corrections to inaccuracies or omissions made during the broadcast.

It's an interesting idea that could be more widely used. Getting sports statistics correct is easier than digging through the intricacies and spin involved in something like a political debate.

ESPN show keeps itself honest

I came across this interview with Jake Tapper on The Bulwark podcast.

And then I try to write for at least fifteen minutes a day every day when I’m in the middle of a writing project because even if I’m busy, everybody has fifteen minutes a day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, whatever.

And if that’s all you do that week, that’s still an hour forty five. That’s two pages maybe. And That’s the lesson is I wrote a novel in my twenties. Mhmm. It didn’t get published.

And then I put it down. And then I didn’t try to do fiction again for another, like, twenty years. And if you don’t sit down and write, then that will happen to you too. Twenty years will go by and you haven’t written a word of fiction, or you’ve written a word, but you know, you never finished anything. And it can happen like that unless you have the the schedule and make yourself abide by it.

Jake Tapper: “All the Demons Are Here” - The Bulwark Podcast

Success isn't guaranteed if you do the work but it will not happen if you don't. That's important to remember.