I don't need a manager; my whole thing is about being fast and out of control!" - Charles Stross

Yup, that pretty much confirms the diagnosis. This is the desk of a diseased mind, hugely ambitious, prone to taking insanely dangerous risks. He’s not ashamed of boasting about it—he clearly believes in better alpha-primate dominance displays through carpentry.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I’d never have time to do anything else.