Spencer Bailey

Well, I think it was the level I was at there.

I was an editorial assistant.

They had this thing called the cheat sheet.

You would write 200-word news blurbs for breaking news that would then go almost immediately live on the site.

The pace of that was just exhausting.

And then they had us on this sort of rotation where some days I would work like an early morning shift to midday.

Other days I would work late afternoon till midnight.

Sounds like an emergency room.

Yeah.

It kind of had more like the hours of like a nurse or something than an editor.

Yeah.

Yeah, and it was run with an early 2010s intensity of, you know, this was the moment of, like, The Daily Beast was rising with BuzzFeed and Huffington Post.

Gawker.

Yeah, Gawker was still kind of very much in the conversation.

That was kind of the vibe and the culture.

And I was like, I still love print.

I still love making and packaging physical things.

I don't know if that's a big, long future.

At the time, I just thought, well, I want to go try that for a little bit and see what happens.

But here we are in 2026.