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Remember this one called 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 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 Layton, 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, I think the business for you kid. Or my reporting

partner there, Selena 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

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