At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

We're living in post-nuance online times.

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you’ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.