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It becomes easy to read a quick note, reflect, skim a text, or even just read the title and think that you just read the entire article piece. The art of sitting down and stopping to read some news has become something really rare. Not only because we can’t stop to do it, but because there’s so much news that it makes it hard for you to decide what to do.

The New York Times is one of the most important institutions in New York. It has so much to say, so much content; so much coverage; from New York to the whole world. When you end up reading something from it, you may feel like you are reading something that a person just came in one day, and wrote about it. When it’s definitely the opposite.

There’s research. There’s conversation. And there’s time to think what wants to be said. This week, I saw a picture of a guy cleaning the Memorial Pools at the dark. It caught my eyes right away. I started to read that news report at the same second. I didn’t even think of it.

It was the first, or one of the first, of a series showcasing jobs and workers that maintain the city alive. A really interesting series.

And Today, I had the chance of going to The New York Times, at the Times Center, to see a series of conversations from writers, journalists, photographers, podcasters there are part of the daily work that makes The New York Times the big institution that it is. And there it was, the team that thought about finding and telling the stories of those workers that makes the city alive.

They, as well, were also workers that made parts of the city alive. Telling stories of people. Telling stories of what is happening. It’s always fun to be able to see from within how other structures and organizations works. There’s a lot of time needed, and a lot of energy put into, to make The New York Times what it is.