I’m not sure how I found this page, but I found it, and it provides some nice reading.  It’s the official “disclosure statement” from the website of the author Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker and author of the books Tipping Point and Blink, and Gladwell writes several thousand words about a host of fascinating topics all somewhat connected to his work.

Topics in this lost essay include: how often he gives speeches (a lot), why he sometimes charges a speaking fee and sometimes doesn’t (free for charities and academic institutions, usually), how many words The New Yorker expects him to write in a year (40,000 to 50,000), what he thinks about journalistic objectivity (mostly impossible, but still preferable), what party most journalists vote for (surprise!), and why his speechmaking and his financial success as a writer present him with a complicated ethical dilemma.  And, as random as this sounds, Gladwell’s statement even includes a link to a page from Slate from 2000 where the Slate editors asked each of its staff members to explain who they were voting for in the 2000 election and why (I’ll make you dig for that fun link yourself in Gladwell’s lost essay, which is a great read for someone interested in writing, speechmaking, journalism, and ethics).