[mikeash]

Why would a TSA blogger need to be able to work effectively under pressure?

[CWuestefeld]

I think the fact that we're all dissecting his work in order to criticize the Agency goes a long way to demonstrating that.

[mikeash]

How? There's no pressure in the sense being discussed here. He has plenty of time to figure out what to write and how to write it.

[dlss]

This. Also, anyone that thinks they don't fall apart under pressure is strongly encouraged to look up choking in the psychology literature and/or talk to attractive members of the opposite gender :p

[mikeash]

Some people can do pretty well. But you can't know until you've tested it, repeatedly.