With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

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.

Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

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

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.