“I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and...” — William Landay Quote

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

Modern equipment invariably has a cloud component that allows the data collected to be analyzed by state-of-the-art algorithms running on unfathomably powerful computers all across the world.