Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

A Pew survey of 6,000 Americans found that most people still call their mother first when life gets hard

Psychology says the generation that grew up in the 1970s possesses a rare form of mental endurance because they were the last generation allowed to fail, get hurt, and figure it out without an adult intervening

Researchers asked older adults with and without cognitive impairment to copy a sentence from a card, then write one from dictation — only the second task revealed a clear difference between the groups

I have interviewed 50 adult children of difficult parents and the quietest thing that tends to come up isn’t anger or grief: it’s the particular tiredness of having spent years hoping someone would become a person they may have never quite been

There is a version of success nobody is selling you — enough money to pay the bills, work you actually care about, and shutting the laptop at 5pm to have dinner with people you love — and it is harder to want than it sounds