I definitely don’t have clean hands here. I’m positive that over the years I’ve engaged in the culture of casual calumny. My 2014–2017 years at New York magazinewere truly formative for me, and taught me that I love actual journalism and actual reporting. But whatever good habits I picked up during that period, it was also when I first became a daily Twitter user. It’s impossible to overstate the impact Twitter had on journalists back then, and it was a prime vector for the CCC. I’m 100% positive that I was overly snarky, quick to judge, and that in some cases I joined the shovel brigades in heaping mud on the names of people I knew almost nothing about. (Consider this a blanket apology, and an open invitation to criticize me if I do it again.)