The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

I like to travel and connect.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.