When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

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.

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

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