I’m a bad email/online-communication person.

This is no secret.

I get messages -I read them- and then I don’t answer.

I’m not proud of it…

but there it is.

I’m especially ashamed of not answering people who have written to me requesting more information for a high school or university paper. It’s very flattering- these are people who want to write a paper about my work or present my work to their peers. That’s awesome. I’ve gotten a lot of these requests lately, but most I haven’t answered…

and this is usually the case, sadly. These sort of requests get neglected by me more than any other sort of message because it takes more time to answer interview questions than to answer emails- even with copying-and-pasting the answers to commonly asked questions.

But while I was in the shower the other day I realized a good solution! Instead of answering these questions again and again on an individual basis, I’ll make them publicly and more easily accessible! You can find a lot of the answers to common questions on the site SOMEWHERE, but it would involve an awful lot of site-scouring.

So I’ve put it all on one page- the brand-new and exciting Media & School Resources Page!

It’s not a perfect solution- if you want to write a paper or prepare a presentation, you’re still going to have to sift through a lot of info, but that’s why it’s schoolwork, right? Also, I’m worried that this is a mega rude solution. I hope nobody finds this to be as rude an answer as I think they might, but I could see it being seen as pretty rude… you’ve carefully prepared some questions for me, and I silently point a stony and cold electronic-finger towards a webpage in response…

but, it’s better than silence, no?

And if you find the page is insufficient, if you find that there is no answer for your particular question, email me it! I’ll try to answer new questions quickly and add them to the page. Over time, it should be become a pretty comprehensive, crowdsourced interview.

I hope it helps!