The World Motivation
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
“I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.”
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
Even if it's just the smallest thing, like what label I go by, I think to find the truth and express it with full confidence.
Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
It's not like I go out on the field thinking that I'm 5-6 and I'm the smallest guy out there. I'm just trying to help my team win games.
I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it.
I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.