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It is toward the end of the second draft, if I’m lucky, when the feeling comes over me that I have something I want to show to other people, something that seems to be working and is not going to go away. The feeling is more than welcome, yes, but it is hardly euphoria. It’s just a new lease on life, a sense that I’m going to survive until the middle of next month. After reading the second draft aloud, and going through the piece for the third time (removing the tin horns and radio static that I heard while reading), I enclose things in boxes for Draft No. 4. If I enjoy anything in this process it is Draft No. 4. I go searching for replacements for the words in the boxes. The final adjustments may be small-scale, but they are large to me, and I love addressing them. You could call this the copy-editing phase if real copy editors were not out there in the future prepared to examine the piece.
Mostly, notes that come from people are things I jot down during meetings (where I almost always do use bullet points, although I don't bother with anything more fancy than a quick `#priority` if there's something important I need to do) and almost always refactor later by moving key information into the relevant places, like my email, calendar, or reference notes.
🌲The Konik Method for Making Useful Notes
Eleanor Konik
Crudely oversimplifying, the rule in the US is that if you sell securities to accredited venture capitalists and they immediately turn around and dump them on retail investors, that’s bad, that’s a public offering of securities and you and the VCs get in trouble. But if you sell the securities to VCs and lock them up for a year, and at the end of the year the VCs dump them on retail, that’s fine, that’s allowed: You sold the securities under an exemption from registration (just to the VCs), and they sold the securities in a regular secondary-market transaction that doesn’t need to be registered.
UBS Cuts Out Credit Suisse - Bloomberg
Matt Levine
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