I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

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.

It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.