David McRaney is an internationally best-selling author and journalist who created the You Are Not So Smart blog, books, and podcast. He travels a lot these days, doing lectures about topics like cognitive biases, self-delusion, and psychology.

He cut his teeth as a newspaper reporter covering Hurricane Katrina. Later, he covered things like who tests rockets for NASA, what it is like to run a halfway home for HIV-positive homeless men, and how a family sent their kids to college by making and selling knives.

Since then, he has been an editor, photographer, voiceover artist, television host, public speaker, and tornado survivor. He worked for several years as the head of digital media for a television station where he also produced The Green Couch Sessions, a TV show about the music of the Deep South.

He is married to Amanda McRaney, and they live in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.