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It’s a cynical view.

The real root of this genre is that magazines are dead. There is a market for tweets and books. Everything else is a path to poverty.

In 1960, Gladwell stuff and Freakonomics, etc would be feature articles in Life or US News & World Report, or Fortune. Now feature writers are extinct.



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