I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
As for my diet I try to eat lean clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
