Book of Poetry: Back Cover

Here is an earlier draft of the book's back cover. That should be description enough about the book itself.

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This is a book of poetry. But there is something quite special about it. The poems in the book were written in under a day by the author Anand Manikutty.

This was really just supposed to be a book of poetry. But something interesting happened along the way. Anand, a member of Top Society and Oath Society, both very selective High IQ societies, sent out some emails on the Coronavirus to a mailing list set up by these groups. Encouraged by the responses he received there, he decided to expand the poetry book he was writing to include material discussing the Coronavirus pandemic as well.

As was said before, there is one thing very special about the book of poetry he was writing. It is that the poems in the book were written in less than a day. In fact, the entire corpus of poems was written in under seven hours. This was done with the help of an A.I. created by the author.

What is significant about the A.I. is that it can write in the style of any living author – assuming you provide the A.I. a corpus of work pertaining to that author. To find out how these poems were created by such an A.I. that was created for quite a different purpose, dear Reader, you will have to read the book itself.

In this book, Anand has also included material based on his online discussions with economists and strategic management experts regarding the Coronavirus pandemic. He has even included portions of emails he shared with members of TOPSociety and OathSociety. This is so that you, Dear Reader, can also get a sense of how economists and evidence-oriented individuals think about and approach large-scale problems such as the Coronavirus epidemic.

There really are better models out there. One just needs to think about things in a model-based and evidence-based way. Anand also predicted that the War in Iraq would not go well. If his predictions in this book are correct, that is another trillion-dollar mistake that could have been avoided using his models.

IN THIS BOOK, FIND OUT

· How Anand's A.I. wrote a book of poetry - from start to finish – in less than a day.

· How and why Trump is getting the response to the Coronavirus wrong, and which social scientific models could have been used to get the White House’s decisions right in the first place.

· Which poem in this collection Harvard's Prof. Michael Witzel liked the best.

· About a new theory, the Theory of Reproducibility in the field of Art. Like the Theory of Disruptive Innovation in the field of Innovation, this theory in the World of Art explains a number of phenomena we see there. For instance, it explains why Indian Classical Dance and Japanese Traditional Theater have not found wide popularity in the West. Also, why there are so many web developers in the world. And why Britney Spears is so successful. Besides many other things.

BIOGRAPHY

Anand Manikutty got his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Governor’s Medal. Mr. Manikutty is a computer scientist, technology entrepreneur and inventor holding over 15 patents in computer science and technology and over 10 publications in these fields. He is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Business School and Stanford University. In addition to computer science, he has also contributed to work in the fields of strategic management, organization behavior and philosophy. He even has a paper on that age-old question whose answer we thought we knew: “Which Came First – The Chicken or the Egg?”. When not working, he likes to go on various random adventures. These have included such activities as swimming with sharks, and white-water rafting in crazy rivers. His parents think that if he makes it to fifty, it will be due to sheer luck and nothing else.

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Sunlight slants

Through a red pine grove:

The shrike's shriek.

Worms wend their weary way

And a hundred birds

look for lunch in the worm-eaten grass.

A solo fisher soars and then falters;

Falls into the oxean, and

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