“Spontaneity Is Just Another Word for Poor Planning”
This is a chapter about what happens when you strip a decision down to nothing but information.
“The Problem Isn’t That I Don’t Feel. The Problem Is That You Can’t Stop Feeling.”
The second Tuesday arrives with rain – the persistent, grey kind that makes everything feel slightly heavier than it needs to. Reily has spent the week since the first meeting turning it over, still not sure whether what happened in that house was an interview or something closer to being studied.
The House on the Hill
The research, and the fiction, behind Detached Mind. I started research for this project long before “artificial intelligence” was a phrase you heard at dinner parties. The last three years were pivotal to asking the right question and tying everything together. When machines started to outperform humans at almost everything, I couldn’t help but wonder:…

