Read about forty books* this year, which isn’t bad. I try to read every day – the second most important part of the job of being a writer is reading widely – but unfortunately I am also human. As a human, I’ve been bio-hacked by the addictive algorithms of social media, and the Internet more broadly, like everyone, so these distractions absorb chunks of time spent in better ways. Such as reading, or writing, or talking to real humans (rather than polarised caricatures), or playing with my sons, ...
Published on December 22, 2022 02:06