#47: Rebecca Mead, staff writer, the New Yorker
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How I Got My First Job Done
"I write pretty, pretty polished drafts," he says. "On occasion, I'll write a piece that I know is a mess and I'll hand it in with the hope that my brilliant editor will be able to see what the through line of it might be." He's always been very good at kind of having a very clear first idea but has got better at it since his early days as an writer. 'It was there, a change was there kind of a shift after several years'
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