Tim Urban is an author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and filmmaker. He is the host of the popular podcast Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Urban works on his blog, "Wait, Wait", and his podcast, "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!", at waitwaitdonttellme.com and waitwaitpod.com respectively
He also writes a weekly column for the "Chicago Tribune" and has written for publications such as "Men's Health", "The New York Times Magazine", and "Huffington Post". The author of two books – "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" and "Urban Tribes: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Digital Revolution" – Urban has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Inc.
Magazine. He was named one of The Oprah Magazine's Top 20 Bloggers in 2009. Urban lives in Chicago with his wife and two children.
Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special–otherwise “special” wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, “Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones”–and this is the problem.Tim Urban
Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than “I don’t like rollerblading” is a workout strategy.Tim Urban
