As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.