Write even when the world is chaotic.
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Like all security, privacy is hard.
We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.
The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.