Most Of Us Have Learned

The Greatest Thing That Prepared Me For Editing Vanity Fair Was Having Four Kids Because You Just Learn To Subjugate Your Ego With The Greater Interest In Mind.

Issues Such As Transparency Often Boil Down To Which Side Of -pick A Number- 40 You're On. Under 40, And Transparency Is Generally Considered A Good Thing For Society. Over 40, And One Generally Chooses Privacy Over Transparency. On Every Side Of This Issue, Hypocrisy Abounds.

I Think Being Canadian Helps You As A Journalist In America, Because You're Sort Of On The Outside Watching This Big Party Going On, And You're Sort Of Taking Mental Notes As It Goes On. I Think If You're In The Party The Whole Time, You Don't Notice It As Much. And I Think Canadians Are Very Good Observers Of American Culture.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Looks In The Mirror And Sees A Playboy Of The Old School. And Men Such As Dominique Strauss-kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, And Charlie Sheen No Doubt Look At Berlusconi And Think, 'role Model!' Women, Of Course, Know Otherwise. They See Him As An Aging, Pathetic Buffoon.

Where Past Generations Had Film Cameras, Scrapbooks, Notebooks, And That Part Of The Brain Which Stores Memories, We Now Have A Smartphone App For Every Conceivable Recording Need. The Thing Is, All That Time You Spend Logging And Then Curating The Quotidian Aspects Of Your Daily Life Is Time Taken Away From Actually Doing Things.