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Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Remember this one college professor being like, why are you late? And I was like, you know, it's early. It was a 10 a.m. class and he's like, it's not that early. And just I, I, when I'm late now,

like, those know, it's early. It was a 10 a.m. class. And he's like, it's not that early. And just like, I, when I'm late now, like, those are the things that come flooding to me. It's like all those memories that like, that it's my fault. You know, it's a personal failing that like that I can't be on time or that I can't meet deadlines. I really don't want to let people down. Welcome to how to. I'm science writer

David Epstein. Deadlines. Can't live with them, can't live without them. Or something like that.

As a journalist, I have a long relationship with deadlines. From a startup I worked at where I had to

file a story every single day to book projects that I have to time out over multiple years.

And a lot of the writers who have mentored me and that I've admired have really specific views on deadlines.

Like Tim Layden, my favorite writer when I was at Sports Illustrated.

He was sort of an old school newspaper guy that kind of like, you know, if you can't make your deadlines, this ain't the business for you, kid.

Or my reporting partner there, Selina Roberts, who famously filed a story about a Nick's

playoff win within minutes of the final buzzer, and it was so good that it gets taught in

journalism classes.

For most of us, though, deadlines can really be fear-inducing.

And yet, we know we need them. But if we don't use

them wisely, deadlines can be useless, or even worse, they can be counterproductive. Our listener

this week has the best of intentions when she sets deadlines, but she just can't seem to follow

through. Meet Avalon. I'm kind of a classic millennial where I've had to do a lot of different things to make money.

So, you know, I have a background in the restaurant industry of like 17 years, but I'm also a DJ and I'm a digital illustrator.

And at any given time, there may be a lot of different income streams that I have going on where I'm making money.

I mean, come on, it's hard enough for people with one job to keep track of all the moving pieces.

But now, with the gig economy, having multiple jobs?

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