Learning to read in the 1960s

 Interesting article in today's NY Post about a failed reading theory that is being discontinued. A person named "B. Black" commented:

In the 1960s, Mom taught me the alphabet and that b + at spelled bat. From there I figured out cat, fat, hat, etc. My father taught me math using coins. By the time I entered 1st grade, I was miles ahead thanks to pencil and paper, a pocket full of change, and Mom and Dad (neither of whom went to college).

https://nypost.com/2023/09/17/columbia-quietly-closes-down-teachers-college-project-that-ruined-countless-lives/?spot_im_scroll_to_comments=true&spot_im_highlight_immediate=true

Yay AI!

 ChatGPT may work out well for me. There are suddenly appearing many job requests for copy editors to humanize books that were generated by ChatGPT from authors' input, but the copy needs humanizing. The conclusion is that more books are going to be written in general. So rather than a threat to my copy editing business, it's a boon.