Drew Bruce

I've spent twenty-five years solving problems across industries that share almost nothing in common — oil and gas, banking, education, media, government — which, depending on how you look at it, is either a useful qualification for writing about problem-solving or a cry for help.

Somewhere in there I helped build BBC iPlayer when streaming was still the kind of problem people lost sleep over, and I've spent longer than I'd like to admit arguing about architecture in organisations large enough that no two people could agree what "the architecture" actually was. These days I work from home in northwest Tasmania, where the problems are different and the main interruption to my writing day is a 100kg Great Dane named Hamish deciding it's time for lunch. (His mum Freya backs him up. It's a coordinated operation.)

I write non-fiction about thinking clearly and communicating visually, and science fiction about things that won't fit in a diagram. The dogs are indifferent to both genres but supportive of the general concept of sitting still for long periods.

Currently: Completing Arguments That Land, the third and final book in The Practical Thinker series. Two more Ancients of Tomorrow books — The First Ancient and The Hidden Kind — are on their way, and a new series, The Vault-Walkers, is now underway. Negotiating daily with Freya and Hamish over whose office this actually is.