Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.