[HN Gopher] Money Stuff is Linear-ish
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Money Stuff is Linear-ish
Author : Amorymeltzer
Score : 112 points
Date : 2022-04-07 09:57 UTC (1 days ago)
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| indeed30 wrote:
| Guess: The emails are sent slowly, in small batches. The email
| addresses are selected in alphabetical order, and this recipient
| appears towards the end of the list. Therefore as subscriber
| count increases, they get the email later and later each day.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| This would assume a linear growth in users I guess? I'd be
| interested to know if this is the case. I have followed Levine
| for a few years but I feel like he kind of exploded in
| popularity at some stage over the last couple of years.
| giraffe_lady wrote:
| I think 2018 maybe? There was that wave of deranged crypto
| hype with like every single company announcing a "pivot to
| blockchain" or ICO or whatever. He consistently handled that
| very well; a lot of humor but he did also evaluate them as
| serious financial products and got to nerd out about and
| compare them to highly technical traditional finance
| instruments. Which honestly that is when he's at his best
| anyway.
|
| There weren't a lot of sources back then that were informed
| enough, accessible enough, and took those announcements as
| seriously as they deserved but no more.
|
| Anyway I was working in tech but nowhere near crypto at that
| time and started seeing his newsletter shared around a lot
| among coworkers and my peer groups around then. Not
| surprising if he picked up a lot of long term readers from
| it.
| WillisWayde wrote:
| If you read to the end of the post, you'll see that the
| timestamp data comes from the Bloomberg website and not emails.
| mikkergp wrote:
| Moving up the stack then, could Bloomberg be publishing
| changes off a queue? Maybe money stuff is deployed in the
| same pipeline with everything else Bloomberg produces.
| rileytg wrote:
| could be stamp of when the queue has been drained?
| arkades wrote:
| This precise link is being submitted for the third time by the
| same user. When does it just become spam?
| sleightofmind wrote:
| Matt Levine amazes me. I cannot imagine writing so much content
| on a daily basis. Let alone if that content is required to be
| entertaining, informative, deep on industry knowledge, and useful
| to neophyte and seasoned investor alike.
|
| To me, the man is a marvel of knowledge and industriousness.
| skippyboxedhero wrote:
| Finance is like this. Nothing happens most of the time but lots
| of people are writing about it furiously. Email lots of people,
| hope they read your email at a time they are going to do a
| trade, and then you make money? It is all quite pointless (but
| Levine's stuff is good because I don't think it pretends to
| have a purpose...UK brokers sometimes have research people like
| this, they don't really produce anything valuable but people
| read it because it is a bit of a laugh...dying breed unf).
| jimbokun wrote:
| Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication
| times?
|
| Has anyone asked the Money Stuff author?
| dan-robertson wrote:
| I don't think there's a great explanation for it being linear.
| But if you ask him I expect you'd get some combination of:
|
| - writing it in a mad frantic rush[1] every day and just
| getting slower over time
|
| - it being harder to write novel things, or there being more to
| read in the morning
|
| - family life, eg he has a toddler and would work in the early
| morning so maybe helping with the morning rush or going to bed
| later as the kid gets a bit older.
|
| - covid breaking the usual schedule of 'work frantically in the
| morning then come to the office to chat to colleagues
|
| - linear increase in time spent reading fan mail in the morning
|
| [1] I think he'd definitely say something like this.
| andreareina wrote:
| - Linearly more previous episodes of Money Stuff he might
| have to refer back to
| maxfurman wrote:
| I haven't, but I look forward to reading his response in
| Monday's column!
| dcminter wrote:
| He cited it at the end of Thursday's column, commenting "I'm
| doing my best!"
| hans1729 wrote:
| >Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication
| times?
|
| The linked post shows that the articles are getting longer.
| Money stuff becomes more and more relevant and publishes longer
| and longer articles, requiring linearly more time to read-
| through pre-publishing. Assuming that the authors workload
| scales linearly with the length of his publications, you can
| derive the respective posting-times scaling along.
| whatshisface wrote:
| The publishing times jump around a lot less than the lengths.
| hannofcart wrote:
| Since the data used the emails as source, could it be caused by
| the increasing size of subscribers in the mailing list?
| WillisWayde wrote:
| If you read the section at the bottom about how the data was
| assembled, you'll see that the timestamps come from the
| Bloomberg website and not emails.
| flerchin wrote:
| Looks like Levine scheduled everything written after 2019 to
| autopublish at noon, unless he finished after noon, and then it
| would publish later in the day.
| kkfx wrote:
| mardifoufs wrote:
| This is about a newsletter called "Money Stuff". I get not
| always reading the article but man..
| Mindless2112 wrote:
| Some people come to HN for the articles. Some just to read
| the comments. And some just to write the comments.
| zelias wrote:
| If it's advertised as a pre-market opening newsletter, but
| doesn't actually come out until the afternoon, then is that
| securities fraud?
| er4hn wrote:
| everything is securities fraud!
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