How the briefs get made: the format, the choices, what we got wrong and what changed. Written by the people who produce the network, argued in public.
Everything worth knowing, in a quarter hour. One network, ten subjects, and the first of them is open today.
Briefs is a media network built on a single promise. Every brief is a produced video under fifteen minutes with chapters you can read, quotes you can check, and a straight answer to whether the thing is worth your time. Books is live. Nine more subjects follow.
Read the post →A review that will not say whether the thing is worth your time is not a review. It is a description.
The limit is editorial, not technical. Here is what it forces, and what happens when a subject will not fit.
Not the bestsellers, not the canon, not what we happened to read. A book earns a brief when the argument around it is worth fifteen minutes.