Insights: On my morning walk to Leigh, I listened to a podcast about Plato's Apology. I also installed an AI tool Jess recommended, an audio transcription app that uses AI to pull together your spoken narratives and effectively 'clean it up.' I've been trying for quite a few years, decades perhaps, to find a way to achieve this, including Dragon Dictation in the early 2000s, all the way through until today, where the best I could manage was trying to use the notes app and my iPhone's built-in capabilities. It's been a 70% solution with pitfalls and barriers preventing me from adopting it. I went the other direction and started using a remarkable to write long-hand. That, too, is a 70% solution at best on a good day. So, as a test, I talked briefly about the podcast I just finished. About how I listened to the Apology of Socrates for the first time. That it made me feel inspired, moved and concerned all at once. I was inspired by Socrates' strong character. He stood firm in his beliefs and ideas, even when society, the government, and the threat of death pressured him. I was moved by his followers' support. Many of them became important figures in history, and they were willing to defend him. I felt concerned because our current politics seem to mirror that old society. People deny being wrong, refuse to accept uncertainty, and often do what's wrong for many to benefit a few. What that transcription app did was generate the eight sentences preceding this one. It worked well. I was impressed with it, challenged, and a bit threatened, too. I want something that accelerates the writing process and can accurately turn my speech into text, but with a desire to be genuine and authentic, using something that subjectively rewrites what I say is a complicated step to consider. I use Grammarly for spell-checking, and it introduces both fixes and errors. AudioPen took my stream-of-consciousness style and made it far more succinct. Yet, does that dilute what might otherwise best represent my own unique individual approach? My writing style (or lack of). It indeed emphasizes that I have room for improvement, as does Grammerly, and could be a significant improvement for my first draft generation. Conversely, how might this change the tone and narrative of Holden Caulfield if I narrated the first chapter of "The Catcher in the Rye"? I will continue to play around with it a bit longer to explore its options and abilities, as it certainly does offer what I need, but is it really what I want?