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If you have a proper job, then my advice about sitting down every morning at 9 am to work on your book probably made you laugh.
Sit down at 9 am and start writing? Who does Jit think I am?
More realistically, you probably have a full-time job to do, and a busy life outside work. Your opportunities to work on your first book are few and of short duration. In fact, it’s more likely that you’ll have ha Read more of this blog post »

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J.I. Thacker rated a book liked it The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future by Mustafa Suleyman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In brief, in very brief, it's a game of two halves. The half describing the potential coming AI apocalypses feels true. It was easy to write, and that makes it easy to read. The half talking about how to put AI back into its box (Suleyman calls it "c ...more
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J.I. Thacker rated a book liked it Pesticides And Pollution (New Naturalist, #50) by Kenneth Mellanby	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a review of pesticides and wider pollution in Britain as the topic stood 50 years ago. As such, it is of historical interest & naturally does not include chemicals like neonicotinoids. Another lacuna is the problem of chemical fertiliser, whi ...more
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J.I. Thacker made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please move this new edition under my authorship topic " Sorry to be a bother - last one for now and it will probably be some little time before I publish something new! The new 1000:1 is coming under a diffe ...more "
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J.I. Thacker made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please move this new edition under my authorship topic " The trouble of initials strikes once more. The new e-book version has found its way to me, but the new paperback version has been assigned elsewhere. H ...more "
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J.I. Thacker made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please move Changeling under my authorship topic " Changeling I'm sorry that I never get this right. If only I had called myself "Jit" instead of J. I. (or J I, or JI) this wouldn't happen every time I ...more "
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