Tonight I had coffee with Rob Cohen, an all around awesome guy and writer for the Simpsons who’s directing our shoot tomorrow.  We were startled to discover that we both dropped out of high school at 16 and never had any other formal education.

Rob, who has been working in television professionally for two decades, says I should stay on the internet as long as possible.  He thinks that television and film are bureaucratic nightmares.  He’s had a movie that he’s sold five times in ten years and has never been made.

This sentiment has been echoed by a lot of my friends in traditional media.  Michael Showalter says that us internet guys are on the tip of an iceberg and, if we stay, we’ll remain on top as it lifts.

The budgets on the internet are mediocre, but the product is attractive, the audience is infinite, and, more importantly, we answer mostly to ourselves.  There’s rarely more than a month’s wait from concept to execution.