Professor Michael A. Peters has worked in an era of transformation that has taken him from a labour-intensive paper-based form of production to the computerised reproduction of thought, and the current shift in the publishing landscape from a reader-subscription to an author-pays model. Most of what he has learned in publishing and editing he has discovered by accident and hard work, through something that worked, or that continues to drive his interest in experimenting with the relationship between the production of thought and the publication of thinking related to current problems. Peters has mastered the art of provocative editorials that rile against the sterile reproduction of ideas already exposited in the published articles of a given issue. This article presents an interview that expands on these themes and more.