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It has been just over a year since the launch of ChatGPT and the subsequent widespread awakening of the power and perils of AI, particularly among authors and publishers. What previously felt like science fiction—an autonomous, generative-AI engine that could author unique and credible written output based on simple prompts—was suddenly not only real, but ubiquitous.
It was six months into the COVID pandemic that I made one of the biggest career decisions of my life. I had spent over 20 years in the tech industry, mostly as a founder, or early employee, at Silicon Valley tech startups. I had just decided to shut down my latest venture and was feeling burned out. So I decided to make the most of that setback by pursuing something radically different that I had always wanted to do: write a novel.
by Linda Hubbard on September 20, 2022 Bit flip, Menlo Park-based author Mike Trigg explains, refers to a zero-to-one change — a 180-degree turn. It’s not completely unlike his transformation from tech founder, executive and investor to author of a first novel, Bit Flip. It is described as fast-paced contemporary thriller that delivers an insider’s view of the corrupting influences of greed, entitlement, and vanity in technology start-ups.
Midway through Mike Trigg’s debut novel, his protagonist — a disillusioned Silicon Valley lifer named Sam Hughes — looks on as the Millennial developer of a booze-delivery app steps out of a limo and exchanges “bro hugs and high fives” with his friends. Sam instantly dislikes the cocky founder of the fictional DoorBuzz, but he fears that they’re not so different. “I just feel like everything I’ve told myself for the last twenty years has been a lie,” he says.
(NewsUSA) - “Waves of Hope” by Judith Keim Hope and determination can bring results … Ellie Weatherby and the four other grandmothers living at Sanderling Cove decide with only two great-grandchildren, it’s time to swing into action. So they invite their grandchildren to spend the summer at the cove, hoping to encourage romance between them. Elle’s three granddaughters -- Charlotte Bradford, Olivia Winters, and Brooke Weatherby -- are all at a point where they have the time to do as she asks.
(NewsUSA) - “Waves of Hope” by Judith Keim Hope and determination can bring results … Ellie Weatherby and the four other grandmothers living at Sanderling Cove decide with only two great-grandchildren, it’s time to swing into action. So they invite their grandchildren to spend the summer at the cove, hoping to encourage romance between them. Elle’s three granddaughters -- Charlotte Bradford, Olivia Winters, and Brooke Weatherby -- are all at a point where they have the time to do as she asks.
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