Douglas Ng

The wider work

The novels are one way into a question. It doesn't stay inside the fiction.

Outside the books, the same inquiry becomes practical: how a person stays relevant, recognisable, and meaningfully paid as technology makes execution abundant and the ground keeps shifting underneath them. Not a course to complete or a method to adopt — a way of staying coherent while the work, and the world around it, keep changing.

That work is still taking shape. For now this is only a marker that it exists, and that it comes from the same place the novels do.

More of it will appear here when it's ready. If the question is already live in how you work, the reflective space is open in the meantime — Remaining Human. There's no hurry.