Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.