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In the fall of two thousand 19, chris cox applied for a job as a seasonal salesman at best by. His application had to be a masterpiece of obfuscation and exaggeration. After concealing his over qualifications, chris turned to over hiping his under qualifications. In the end, his resime was so scanty he had to jack up the fan size to 16 just to fill the whole page. Somehow, though, he got the job. But that wasn't all chris wanted. He also asked: Can you learn how to work like its the last minute before the last minute?

The deadline is one of the most powerful tools we have for getting work done. So why are we all so afraid of it? After studying organizations that manipulate deadlines to their advantage, Christopher Cox (former chief editor of Harper's and executive editor of GQ) has figured out how to transform deadlines from something to be feared into a superpower to boost productivity and stimulate creativity. He’s bottled his findings in a new book called “The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It's the Last Minute—Before the Last Minute,” and in this episode, he shares what he has learned with novelist Rivka Galchen.