how i work
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I’m Elana Karp, Head Chef At Plated, And This Is How I Work
On How I Work, we like to find people with especially challenging jobs. Making the recipes at a meal-kit-by-mail service seems challenging: Each recipe must be crowd-pleasing, easy to follow, and use ingredients that can be shipped around the country in vast quantities divvied into tiny portions. At Plated (acquired last year by grocery company…
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I’m Pop-Up Magazine Editor Douglas McGray, And This Is How I Work
Douglas McGray’s first magazine doesn’t look like a magazine. Pop-Up Magazine, currently on tour, is a live variety show that uses different techniques to tell a story onstage. McGray also runs the California Sunday Magazine (which does look like a magazine), a weekly magazine about California, the American West, Asia and Latin America. We talked…
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How I Plan My Work Week
As a self-employed freelancer, keeping track of all the deadlines and other tasks I have can be challenging. On a typical day, I’m responsible for delivering content to three publishers, as well as corporate clients and other jobs. Throw in regular interstate travel and few other bits and pieces and planning a week becomes a…
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I’m Smosh Games Host Mari Takahashi, And This Is How I Work
Before Mari Takahashi joined entertainment company Smosh, her job was ballet dancing, and her career aspiration was to make a living teaching dance. Now she’s in charge of Smosh Games, a YouTube channel with over seven million subscribers, where she regularly appears in videos such as her Minecraft show MariCraft. She told us how she…