My work! My luck! My work! My luck! (apologies to CHINATOWN...)

Meeting yesterday's NaNo word count goal was like pulling teeth. 1,667 teeth.  But, done!  (1704 teeth, in fact.)  So today's tidbit is in the "the harder I work, the luckier I get" vein.  Here's looking forward to the luck.

My experience is you always get lucky if you’re willful enough about it. I discovered when I was in my twenties, and I started trying to make work, that if I would spend even more hours on it, luck would kick in on some story. And then you have to be ready to throw stuff out, too. You’re making room for the better stuff that’s going to come.

    -- Ira Glass, producer/creator/host, This American Life

Read the full interview here.

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My love for both This American Life and NPR is boundless. But they insist on earning it anyway.

Working at BigAnonymous, I've read A LOT of material written by financial professionals attempting to explain the financial crisis. None of it holds a candle to This American Life and NPR's jaw-droppingly revelatory collaboration The Giant Pool of Money, which recently won a Peabody Award for its analysis of the housing collapse that started it all.