Sublime

To succeed in today's media environment, “political leaders must appear as accessible, authentic, and relatable,” she argues,

Charm requires proximity.

A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think.

charisma required distance from the audience.

Then, as now, I try to hire people who have some progression on their résumé that doesn’t make sense by the conventional logic of the meritocracy. I want to see that they believe in something bigger than the conventional definition of success.