I am often a dick on Twitter. I need to stop doing this. When I want to shit on something other peop

I am often a dick on Twitter. I need to stop doing this. When I want to shit on something other people are doing, I really need to force myself to stop and try to find a way to make the same point as a joke. If nothing else, it's a good way to stretch my creativity.

Three trends right now, with the New Year almost here: predictions, listing books read in 2019 and (for fellow journalists) listing favorite stories of the year. So I tweeted a tweet that said: "Predictions are bad. Congratulations on reading books. Tell me what your shitty stories were." I deleted it. A few seconds later my friend Alex tweeted something that captured at least some of the sentiment in a much funnier way.