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The Technique Running Too Fast 

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The artist Xanthe Dobbie says to The Guardian that the legal institution can’t keep up with the Artificial Intelligence, but, as I see it, it is not just the legal institutions; it is the entire society that will suffer from the fast movement. 

Even if suffering gives some meaning to life, it is not what we are looking for. We can see a lot of professions are going to disappear. It has always been a part of the development; we find a more efficient way of doing things, and we do not need the people anymore. 

The pace is faster now, and as Xanthe Dobbie says, we use it the wrong way, sometimes the evil way. 

We can see that we are building a society for a few people to flourish. As the painter Sam Leach says, it is about who owns AI that matters and, for the moment, it is a handful of companies that have the power. 

In London, we can see ABBA as avatars on the scene in the ABBA arena. ABBA’s member are already rich, and they are probably collecting even more money through their avatars. 

The technique is taking in more money for the people with an already great fortunes. This will widen the gap between the rich and the poor. 

For things that make us leave the bed in the morning; might be rare in the future. The meaning and motivation to live will decrease, unless people make a revolution and log off the internet and the societal development we now just accept. 

The artist Nick Cave expresses his view on ChatGPT that mimicked his work, and he finds it as “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”. 

We can wonder if it takes the core out of being a civilized human and leave an empty body that has no purpose.

Book review: How to write Non-fiction by Joanna Penn 

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How to write non-fiction is a book for writers that are beginners but also for those who want to learn more about writing a non-fiction book. 

The author, Joanna Penn, is a well-orientated author and independent publisher that has written several books about writing and publishing. She has also written a bundle of fiction books under the name J.F Penn. 

How to write non-fiction is divided into five parts, and it starts with the mindset you need to have before you start writing. Followed by business thinking and how to reach the readers. Part three is about writing and editing. And part four is about how you create the product and the different ways of publishing it. The last part is about how you marketing non-fiction. We can see that the parts cover the entire process. 

Throughout the book, you understand that Joanna Penn is a businesswoman. Her entrepreneurial view of the book business is there all the time. It is more of a concept of making business, building a brand and an author’s platform or, as Penn call it, an ecosystem around the author. 

The book is divided into small sub-chapters with around five pages of text and ends with some questions the reader can ask themself, and a list of resources that are often linked to Penn’s own books and ecosystem. 

So do not be misled by the title, How to write non-fiction, I think you have a brilliant use for the book, but if you are looking for a book with a focus on the writing process; how you structure the book and more text related ideas, then you might look for another book. 

I will say the title for this could be more pointed to the entire process from the point you start to think about writing a nonfiction book until it is on the market

Book review: Visual Thinking

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Visual Thinking – The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions

Author: Temple Grandin

Non-Fiction – Personal Development

Rating: 5/5

Temple Grandin clarifies the difference between the verbal and visual thinkers and why it is important that we are aware of the various way of thinking.

The book gives the reader an answer if they think in patterns, picture or words, or at least the reader will think about it, because they might think in all these ways and not lean that much to a certain style. Grandin goes deeper into this and question, for example, the educational institution to favour the verbal thinkers. 

“Visual thinking is the ability to see associated images from your “visual memory files” and access them to different ways to problem solve, navigate, and interpret the world.”

She explains the advantages for visual thinkers and how they can contribute to our society. She also describes the different between an object visualiser and a spatial visualiser. 

It tells us about people that are leaving school for different reason, due to how they think differently from others. Grandin self tells us about being screened out from some classrooms. And the importance of have room for everybody in school despite their area of intelligence, such as thinking styles as verbal, spatial and object visualisers. 

What I liked with this book is of course that she brings it up at all. It is important for our future and for our well-being to be aware of this, especially for those that are in the outskirts of the continuous and are heavily embossed by their way of thinking.

Grandin is into engineering and that where the focus is, even do she mention other professions she tells most of the examples from her own background and what is missing might be a broader explanation from other areas where visual thinkers are active or could be to an advantage. 

“Imagine if we catered to visual thinkers the way we cater to verbal thinkers.”

But the book still accomplishing the goal, and we can understand what the visual thinker can contribute with and the value of people in different styles of thinking. A mix is worth a lot in a group that having a problem to solve.

I believe it speaks very well to the targeted audience. Grandin herself say she is an object visual thinker and therefor it may lean into those who are similar. The spatial visualisers might go away with less meat on their legs after reading the book, but still with some more meat.

I believe you should read this book; I do not think there is many in this subject on the market. Visual thinking gives you awareness about yourself and how your brain works, and it does not matter if you are a verbal or visual thinker, you will understand things both about yourself and others. And that is of great value. 

On Perfectionism

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Some claims that perfectionism is something that we should let go of. I will say yes to that, but also no. I believe we cannot do everything perfect so to get something done during the day; we need to choose what we are going to spend our time to make perfect. 

We can, of course, also ask, what is perfect? I believe that some people are born to be perfectionists. Maybe it is their way of thinking. They might see a picture in their head of the project they are going to execute and they want to make an exact copy of that.

Whit that said, we can say that what they see as perfect might not be perfect for anybody else. Or it might be. Think of all the musicians that make all this beautifully made songs, if they would be happy with a little half-assed piece. 

Maybe we can sort perfectionism under the thinking styles, auditory-verbal for sound and spatial-visual for form and pictures. Those people with a very clear picture or sound that see many details also need more time for the copy. 

Are we all perfectionists? If some people do not see as many details in their imagination, they will make the copy more half-assed, at least for the people that imagine more details. 

We can end with saying, you might choose when to be a perfectionist or not. Do it when it is important for you. And make it half-assed when it is not important.

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