I am an incorrigible interdisciplinarian. I was trained in a broad range of basic natural sciences (biology, chemistry, geography, geology) and then branched into energy engineering, population and economic studies and history. For the past 30 years my main effort has gone into writing books that offer new, interdisciplinary perspectives on inherently complex, messy realities.
On Writing
Hemingway knew the secret. I mean, he was a lush and a bad man in many ways, but he knew the secret. You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.
Bill Gates reads you a lot. Who are you writing for?
I have no idea. I just write.
On Apple
Apple! Boy, what a story... When people start playing with color, you know they’re played out.
Digithead's lab notebook is a place for tutorials, cheat-sheets and stray thoughts on topics related to programming, bioinformatics, machine-learning and visualization.
Guide to Open Science - my attempt to get a handle on open access, open data and open source for science
Learning R - tutorials and crib-notes I cooked up whilst flailing my way up the learning curve of R