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 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

I’ve watched enough true crime to be hard to impress, and these are the 8 Netflix documentaries I wish I could watch again for the first time

The way someone handles being corrected in a comment thread can be surprisingly telling about how safe they feel being wrong in general

Not everything people share online is a cry for attention — for many, posting may be the closest thing they have to a journal that occasionally writes back