Wired magazine editor in chief Nicholas Thompson posted the following on LinkedIn:
7-year-old: “When you call people for your job, what are you doing?”
Me: “Well some of it is calling people I work with and some of it is reporting.”
7-year-old: “What’s reporting?”
Me: “It’s trying to figure out information and stories. You find out about something important and you try to figure out what really happened.”
9-year-old: “The room where it happened / the room where it happened.”
Me: “Exactly.”
9-year-old: “So you would have written about Alexander Hamilton sending money to Maria Reynolds?”
Me: “Well, that’s complicated.”
7-year-old: “And if you did, he would have been mad at you.”
Me: “Definitely.”
9-year-old: “Do people get mad at everyone who writes stories?”
Me: “A lot of them.”
7-year-old: “So when you’re done as editor of Wired, will we be the only people who like you?”
