Surprise!
I bet you thought this series had died. But it was only snoozing.
I start projects at a rate faster than I can finish them. I wish I could do what a character in Greg Egan’s Permutation City could do, and have my ‘exoself’ adjust my personality so I would stick with just one project for an arbitrarily long time:
The workshop abutted a warehouse full of table legs—one hundred and sixty-two thousand, three hundred and twenty-nine, so far. Peer could imagine nothing more satisfying than reaching the two hundred thousand mark—although he knew that he would probably change his mind and abandon the workshop before that happened; new vocations were imposed by his exoself at random intervals, but statistically, the next one was overdue. Before taking up woodworking, he’d passionately devoured all the higher mathematics texts in the central library, run all the tutorial software, and then contributed…
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