https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/opin ... ebate.html
A brief/relevant excerpt:
There seem to be an increasing number of journalists out there these days with past quizbowl experience, so it's always interesting to see them bring it up in their tweeting/writing.Jane Coaston wrote:I have always wanted to learn more, whether it’s about the history of the Xia dynasty or about what drives homelessness in the city I call home. When I was a kid, after years of feeling alone in my hunger for information, the academic team was the first time I could make that knowledge useful.
I’ve come to think of that impulse to know as academic team energy. More than just a drive to understand things better, it is also the joy of knowing, of taking a fact from a page in a book and putting it in my brain, where I will keep it forever.