Starships are all work and no fun.

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

We are, after all, homo economicus.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.