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I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.