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Hey Goodreads peeps, drinks are on me. I’d love to be able to do this face-to-face, hear why you’re reading this over coffee (or a beer) and talk about my obsession with sensemaking, and how books rewire our brains and change the world.

Unfortunately, face-to-face is limiting and, most times, impossible. This is why I love Goodreads. Not only do I get to exorcise some of my demons by using my blog here
as a form of therapy, but I also get to answer questions you ask and post my latest news. The books I write take apart the mechanics of human behavior and analyze the building blocks of this world, though some readers interpret them as being about, search, the web, popular culture, and elite soldier mentality.

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David Amerland Jeannie, seeing how I just got to reply to this you can begin to guess the "how". :) Really I need to be a little more switched on about more online p…moreJeannie, seeing how I just got to reply to this you can begin to guess the "how". :) Really I need to be a little more switched on about more online places than I am at the moment. And, to get serious, on your question, I write the way you're taught not to. I put together ideas all the time and link each one with research, other people's thoughts, comments. Everything. Then, some of them become articles, some go nowhere and some become books and some of the ideas that started out as articles become books, case in point my latest one "The Sniper Mind" that took three years to complete and started out as an article: https://goo.gl/sVB51f.

Unlike the planned, orchestrated approach to writing that most writers go for I end up working in a Darwinistic, almost, way where what becomes what is determined by my assessment of time, impact and the value it can deliver. It is a little chaotic in that it forces me to juggle things in my head, so things that should fit in SEO have to compete with research and posts I am creating that are "marketing" and have a human element and then these have to find space with critical assessments of the impact of technology. It can be exhausting and I have had days when I had to force myself out of bed because the day seemed to be just so daunting. The upside is that this constant sense of discomfort forces me to look at everything with fresh eyes. It allows me to see overlapping connections and similarities in subjects that are not always obviously linked and it allows me to find the common drivers that motivate everything. I hope this answered your question :) (less)
David Amerland Take me to the Star Trek universe already please. Not just because the Earth has united into one global government, not just because we have made cont…moreTake me to the Star Trek universe already please. Not just because the Earth has united into one global government, not just because we have made contact with xenoforms and now have the United Federation of Planets, not just because, phasers, electronic translators, communicators, star ships and warp drive but ALSO because computers can understand nuanced context in the spoken word, extract entities, run probably veracity and answer in complete, meaningful sentences! I would be talking to the Star Ship computer ALL day!(less)
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This is the first post on writing I’ve written since December 2021. First, if you’ve been following this blog “I am sorry”. Yep, really I am because there was no conscious intention to abandon it for almost two years and no active thought to not write anything else for a while.

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“Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.”
David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

“I am a firm believer that knowledge is power but only if it leads to comprehension.”
David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

“Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.”
David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions

“It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but that, as psychologists will tell you is the way we operate. When we are at the maximum of our disconnect we also are ready to connect and feel the need for interaction.”
David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

“Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.”
David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
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“The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.”
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