One of the things I learned from writing for Cracked is that the majority of a writer’s audience are not regulars.  And I’m talking the overwhelming majority.  They’re people who were pulled from Digg and Facebook and search engines.  They’re people who were passed a link in an email.  So if I’m writing an article on parenting, you’ll see me having to tell everyone that I have three kids.  Even though the regular readers have heard me say it a dozen times, and the really stupid ones will think, “WE KNOW YOU HAVE THREE KIDS, GODDAMNIT!”  The other 600,000 people who came there won’t have any earthly clue who I am.

So I’ve learned to be patient with having to repeat myself.  I have to always keep in mind that I’m not, nor will I ever be, big enough for someone to instantly recognize.  And because of that, I’ll have to answer the same questions because not everyone has heard the answer.