How the columns are written…

We often are asked how two authors in different continents are able to co-write the columns. Typically we’ll meet in the Seychelles, crack open a laptop, have the bartender pour some negronis, and wrap it up in about half an hour, then fly back by private jets to our respective homes. While 30 minutes may not seem like much time to crank out 600-900 words, rest assured that a team of researchers spends two weeks on advance work for each piece–also crowd testing punch lines and flipping through the thesaurus in search of big words.