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.

I have interviewed 30 people who stayed in unhappy marriages for decades, and the reason was rarely as simple as fear, money, or love
Amazon MGM Studios dropped a nearly finished film about Sam Altman after signing a $50 billion deal with OpenAI, and the official statement was that the movie would be better served by a different studio, which is one of the more transparent non-explanations a major corporation has issued in recent memory
People who downplay their loneliness aren’t always fine — for some it’s simply that the word feels too large and too self-indulgent for something so ordinary and so constant
People who married in the 1970s and 1980s often didn’t have the language for what they needed — and many of them made it work anyway, in ways their children are still trying to understand
People who stay in long marriages aren’t always in love the same way they started — and for many, what develops in the middle may be the version that holds