The Man Who Reads 1,000 Articles a Day

Dan Shipper
9 min readDec 19, 2019

Robert Cottrell reads 1,000 articles a day.

But the verb ‘to read’ isn’t exactly right to describe what he does. Ingest is a little bit closer. But it doesn’t quite hit it on the nose, either. Ingestion implies that what he’s doing is a mechanical, rote activity.

No, Robert Cottrell eats articles. With gusto and verve.

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Dan Shipper

Thinking things through. Prev: Co-founder of @UseFirefly, acquired ’14 by @Pega.