We are, after all, homo economicus.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

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.

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.