Why So Few Matt Levines? · Gwern.net
Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combination of expertise, obsession, and persistence are also rare.
--- title: Why So Few Matt Levines? description: "Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combination of expertise, obsession, and persistence are also rare." created: 2024-09-24 modified: 2024-09-24 status: in progress confidence: possible importance: 3 css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs ... [Matt Levine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Levine_(columnist)) is the most well-known newslettrist (["Money Stuff"](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/aut
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