I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

I do not click on random youtube videos.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.