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

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

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

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.

The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.