“Yeah. She’s definitely making me a better writer. Let’s say I’m consciously working on a hard problem at work, and I look away from it and play around with being Duchess for a few minutes. Then when I go back to my problem with fresh eyes, I can solve it. I’ll give you an example: Let’s say I’m tired of working and getting burned out. Duchess is thinking about Möbius strips and strip malls and thinking about the intersections between those two ideas, and what might be funny about that. It’s kind of like playing with a Rubik’s Cube while you’re trying to solve an equation.”
