📝 Leaving The Times I first visited The New York Times in 2010. I was fresh out of college, jobless during a recession, and new to New York, when I got an out-of-the-blue email from a legendary Times financial columnist, Floyd Norris. Floyd had picked up my first book (a memoir of the semester I spent undercover at Liberty University) and wrote to me to tell me that he liked it. I was floored, and asked Floyd if we could get lunch sometime. He agreed. We met in the cafeteria of the Times…