Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.