Codie Sanchez

Well, I got in trouble because I overstated my argument.

What I meant to say was when I look at my own career,

I would not be where I am today if in my 20s and 30s I was working remotely.

I went into the office every day in my 20s at the Washington Post and I sat within 10 feet of some of the greatest journalists of my generation.

And that experience was of incalculable importance in teaching me what I'm doing.

And if I was at home, I would have gotten none of it.

If I was at home, I would have missed the kind of serendipitous learning opportunities.

I would have missed the kind of assignments that come just because you're around.

Hey, this just happened.

Somebody looks up and sees me.

Gladwell, go do it.

Unbelievable opportunity, right?

If I'm at home and they see somebody else, right?

Is that kind of...

Bob Woodward, the greatest investigative reporter of the 20th century, was 10 feet from me when I started as a 23-year-old at the Washington Post.

And I would spend hours just listening to him, just listening and watching him, listening to him on the telephone.

It's like a graduate school seminar in how to ask questions, in how to

convince sources to do what you want them to do, how to, you know, I mean, on and on.

I was just, I had a woman next to me, Kathleen Day, great, just a great reporter, with a very different method than I, personality than I had, much more sort of obviously aggressive.

I don't mean that in a negative way, but