This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.