Li-Lian Ang
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2 Apr
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And I thought, you know, I've got time.
Why don't I just do this?
And I had watched this YouTube series about this Emperor Justinian, who is like the emperor of the 6th century Byzantine Empire at the height of this so-called Eastern Roman Empire.
And in the story of him, he had married this woman called Theodora, who came from a very low class birth standing.
And marrying her didn't really help much with his social standing at a time when he was still kind of unstable when he first got onto the throne.
And the most striking thing to me is that there were many little tidbits in his history that indicated that he really, really loved her.
She passed away and he lived on 20 years after her.
And even though she never bore him an heir, he never remarried anybody.
And every year he would have a big procession to pay respects to her in this big funeral ceremony.
And I was like...
why why does this man love her so much there must be something really amazing about this moment so i decided like okay i'm just gonna like figure out everything i can about her life and try to reconstruct her entire life and finish this book project in a year so that i can graduate from university without having to think about having this like loose start so that was like the challenge i gave myself i'm going to write and publish this book in one year yeah
Yeah, it's crazy.
I always think back also to my degree.
I did a double major in data science and history.
And I think my entire degree experience would have been so different if I had AI tools.
One of the tools I use most in my work right now is a speech-to-text translation tool.
Because I think better out loud.
And that was basically the whole way that I wrote my novel was to...
just like blab out all the different sections in not thinking too hard about my word structure or trying to wordsmith things to make sure that I had a really concrete structure for the entire book before filling it in with prose.
And I think I could have gone through that process so much faster if I could have a really reliable like speech to text translator other than the one that I was using like over like four years ago.
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