Three things: 

1. I am a millionaire now.

2. The first 100+ pages of my murder mystery are done.

3. AI

Money is just one word. I have much more.

I have been writing my whole life. First, I wrote in my head when I didn't know how to write on paper. My late mother told stories about my imagination. She encouraged me to use it.

My aunty – between friends, Die Führerinne – told her that the boy was wasting time and getting on her nerves by telling those unbelievable lies.  

My aunty got dementia – my mother, who kept reading until she died at the age of 94, was sharp like a knife till the end. I guess good stories keep people alive better than being practically dull.

But that's beside the point. I have been using Grammarly since Jun 23, 2015. Heaven's sent for us who don't speak English as their first language. It gently tries to make you write better English – but also dum down if you get too wild.

I often tease the algo and push it to its limits. It has an interesting, almost aunty-like censor-SHIP it sails against my winds. But I don't give a flying fucks about it when I know what the pace is and how to tone my shit when I so wish. 

But like I loved my dear and stiff aunty, I love Grammarly warmly. Without it, I would have bankrupted myself many times over by buying expensive and often very unreliable proofreading services.

Today, I received Grammarly's weekly report again. Since I started using it, it has combed through 14,131,886 of my words.

So, now you know: I am a world millionaire. Somehow, it is a much more soothing feeling than anything else. 

Money goes with the wind, but some of my words may live much longer than my ailing body. You cannot take money with you when you kick the Hyasinthe – but your verbal appearance may survive death. 

And about the legacy and shit

The great news is (and the reason why this newsletter is over one week late) that my novel has taken over my will. A couple of weeks ago, it refused to be a daily little habit of writing a few hundred words. It wanted to occupy my internal being more than that.

Now, nine characters are consistently schmoozing in my head, and each has slowly developed a nature, habits, and traits that surprise me daily. I know them all—after all, they are all fragments of me—but still, they give me goosebumps with their reactions and memories they tell me and to each other.

So, the book's first part (the set-up, you know) is now done as a first draft. About 30,000 words set the scene for the nasty murder that happened 25 years ago, and my reluctant protagonist must try to solve it. 

I am so pregnant with this story and its people. I don't know about women who are pregnant (I don't have personal experience of it for obvious reasons), but this pregnancy has made me difficult to be with because I tend to be in my thoughts, not hear conversations, answer vaguely, forget what I said, and generally be a bit daft. I have used my age telling that it is my dementia, but the truth to be told: it is the nine people inside me who are so much more interesting to me than anything else. I am sorry, guys, but imagination builds better relationships.

I had the same experience when directing plays. Before the first night, the world disappeared, and I lived with the play's characters more than with the people around me. Then, after the big night, I woke up to the world. Some 6 to 9 months had passed, and I was like a Martian on Earth, wondering what was happening here.

So, I might miss a few newsletters if the chatter in my head gets too loud, but I forgive me in advance.

After all, my legacy is not in business or money but in how I word them. 

AI is now FairAim-AI

And then the obligatory business part. I found a business partner, Changyu Bai, with whom we set up an AI team: www.fairaim-AI.com. 

Chengy is a genius. He was a developer at TikTok in China before moving to New Zealand a few months ago and has such deep machine learning and AI expertise that we can make this local AI business soar.

I know everybody can use ChatGPT, and you can hop on the AI wagon just by getting a free account, but when it comes to really boosting your business with it, the learning curve is surprisingly steep.

And on top of the learning curve is the time it takes. If you want to fast-track your AI adoption and make it so that you don't hit your toes on every AI rock on the road, you need people like Chengyu and me to build those scaffoldings to support your AI implementations.

So, if you need AI – now you know where to get it.

What is going on in your world, words, and business?

Ngā mihi

Jussi

The weekly quote

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein