Joram turned to writing following a successful career in science. To his surprise, the two have a lot in common. Joram's latest publication is a collection of short stories, Notes Going Underground. Additional publications include The Open Book and Other Tales of Love and Yearning (short stories), Jellyfish Have Eyes (novel), Gene Sharing and Evolution:
The Diversity of Protein Functions (non-fiction), and The Speed of Dark, a Memoir (non-fiction).
I can remember the first time I was asked about what role, if any, digital distractions – email, mobile phones, computers – made in my writing practices. Five years after first pondering the question, my answer has changed….
Have you ever done something that surprised and delighted you, and then thought, “How did I do that?” Perhaps we all have an internal clock that guides us to the right move at the right time. Yet timing, unlike the passage of time, escapes definition. We struggle to define it, yet in some ways, it defines us.
Estimating the relative weights of nature – genetics especially – and nurture as driving forces of destiny involves wandering into uncharted territory. It’s good for us that a blog a reasonable place to test ideas, to speculate, to look for missing pieces of the puzzle. As Einstein said, “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.”